CVE-2014-9423

NameCVE-2014-9423
DescriptionThe svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 transmits uninitialized interposer data to clients, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory by sniffing the network for data in a handle field.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-146-1, DSA-3153-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
krb5 (PTS)bullseye, bullseye (security)1.18.3-6+deb11u5fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.20.1-2+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie1.21.3-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
krb5sourcesqueeze1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze9DLA-146-1
krb5sourcewheezy1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3DSA-3153-1
krb5source(unstable)1.12.1+dfsg-17
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