CVE-2014-9423

medium
Published 2015-02-19 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.12.1+dfsg-17
debian debianbullseyefixed1.12.1+dfsg-17
debian debianforkyfixed1.12.1+dfsg-17
debian debiansidfixed1.12.1+dfsg-17
debian debiantrixiefixed1.12.1+dfsg-17

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mitkerberos_51.11
mitkerberos_51.11.1
mitkerberos_51.11.2
mitkerberos_51.11.3
mitkerberos_51.11.4
mitkerberos_51.11.5
mitkerberos_51.12
mitkerberos_51.12.1
mitkerberos_51.12.2
mitkerberos_51.13

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.