Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5)

CVE-2015-2696 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 relies on an inappropriate context handle, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer read and process crash) via a crafted IAKERB packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.

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