A buffer over-read flaw was found in the way MIT Kerberos handled certain requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker who is able to inject packets into a client or server application's GSSAPI session could use this flaw to crash the application.
Find out more about CVE-2014-4342 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the version of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (krb5) | RHSA-2015:0439 | 2015-03-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (krb5) | RHSA-2014:1389 | 2014-10-13 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | krb5 | Not affected |
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