CVE-2014-4345

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8 (+24)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7980
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1255.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136640.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-08/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00030.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1255.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102
http://secunia.com/advisories/59415

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