# CVE-2014-4341: MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by inj

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-07-20 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

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## References

- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e6ae703ae597d798e310368d52b8f38ee11c6a73
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94904
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60448
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136360.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68909
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7949
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60082
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59102

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