An information disclosure flaw was found in the way MIT Kerberos RPCSEC_GSS implementation (libgssrpc) handled certain requests. An attacker could send a specially crafted request to an application using libgssrpc to disclose a limited portion of uninitialized memory used by that application.
Find out more about CVE-2014-9423 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as the flaw was introduced in a later version (1.11).
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (krb5) | RHSA-2015:0439 | 2015-03-05 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | krb5 | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | jbossas | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | krb5 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | krb5 | Not affected |
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