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.
Published: 2014-08-14
Score: 8.5 High
EPSS: 11.3% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-37-1 krb5 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3000-1 krb5 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-4272 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2310-1 Kerberos vulnerabilities
References
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http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 cve-icon cve-icon
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7980 cve-icon cve-icon
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1255.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136640.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137056.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-08/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00030.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1255.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59415 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59993 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/60535 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/60776 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/61314 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/61353 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2014-001.txt cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2014-001.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/109908 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69168 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030705 cve-icon cve-icon
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2014_4345_numeric_errors cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128157 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/dc7ed55c689d57de7f7408b34631bf06fec9dab1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/181 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4345 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4345 cve-icon
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Mit Kerberos 5
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:12:35.133Z

Reserved: 2014-06-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-4345

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-14T05:01:50.817

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-4345

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-08-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-4345 - Bugzilla

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