CVE-2014-5354

medium

Description

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

References

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/04038bf3633c4b909b5ded3072dc88c8c419bf16

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031376

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71680

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00061.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-12-16

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium