CVE-2014-4344

HIGH 7.8CVE-2014-4344 · Published 14/08/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-4344 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting kerberos 5 (mit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.6%, higher than 93.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kerberos 5 mit	`= 1.10= 1.10.1= 1.10.2= 1.10.3= 1.10.4= 1.11= 1.11.1= 1.11.2= 1.11.3= 1.11.4= 1.11.5= 1.12= 1.12.1`	No fix yet

Description

The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty continuation token at a certain point during a SPNEGO negotiation.

References

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