Bug 1179863 (CVE-2014-9423)
Summary: | CVE-2014-9423 krb5: libgssrpc server applications leak uninitialized bytes (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001) | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | bbaranow, bmaxwell, cdewolf, csutherl, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dknox, dpal, fnasser, grocha, jason.greene, jawilson, jboss-set, jclere, jdoyle, jplans, jrusnack, lgao, myarboro, nalin, pgier, pkis, psakar, pslavice, rmainz, rsvoboda, security-response-team, twalsh, vtunka, weli |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way MIT Kerberos RPCSEC_GSS implementation (libgssrpc) handled certain requests. An attacker could send a specially crafted request to an application using libgssrpc to disclose a limited portion of uninitialized memory used by that application.
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Last Closed: | 2015-03-06 10:23:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1181208, 1188869 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1179866 |
Description
Vasyl Kaigorodov
2015-01-07 16:51:24 UTC
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the MIT Kerberos project for reporting this issue. According to MIT, server software (including third-party applications) using libgssrpc from release krb5-1.11 and later are vulnerable. krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are not affected by this as the flaw as noted in the upstream advisory was introduced in 1.11. External References: http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txt Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as the flaw was introduced in a later version (1.11). Created krb5 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1188869] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:0439 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html krb5-1.11.5-18.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. krb5-1.12.2-14.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |