PT-2015-5839 · Mit+3 · Mit Kerberos 5+3

Nicolas Williams · Published 2015-10-30 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-2696

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions prior to 1.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an incorrect pointer read and process crash. This occurs when a crafted IAKERB packet is mishandled during a gss inquire context call, due to reliance on an inappropriate context handle.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.14, update to version 1.14 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-18

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1392

CVE-2015-2696

DSA-3395-1

MGASA-2015-0436

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1928-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1997-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1897-1

USN-2810-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mit Kerberos 5

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 91

• https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e04f0283516e80d2f93366e0d479d13c9b5c8c2a · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170683.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2002-2443 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2810-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0436.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2696 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00014.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0436 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2696 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2696 · Vendor Advisory