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CVE-2014-4341

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20
• MIT Kerberos 5: before 1.12.2 — fixed in 1.12.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Tus: 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MIT Kerberos 5 1.12.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html
• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc
• http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7949
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136360.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59102
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60082
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60448
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68909

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