CVE-2014-4345

critical

Description

Off-by-one error in the krb5_encode_krbsecretkey function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.11.x before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of "cpw -keepold" commands.

References

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/181

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/dc7ed55c689d57de7f7408b34631bf06fec9dab1

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95212

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128157

https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2014_4345_numeric_errors

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030705

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69168

http://www.osvdb.org/109908

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2014-001.txt

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/61353

http://secunia.com/advisories/61314

http://secunia.com/advisories/60776

http://secunia.com/advisories/60535

http://secunia.com/advisories/59993

http://secunia.com/advisories/59415

http://secunia.com/advisories/59102

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1255.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00030.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-08/msg00009.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137056.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136640.html

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1255.html

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7980

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-08-14

Updated: 2020-01-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical