Bug 1275871 (CVE-2015-2695)

The kerberos project reports:

The SPNEGO mechanism currently replaces its context handle with the
mechanism context handle upon establishment, under the assumption that
most GSS functions are only called after context establishment.  This
assumption is incorrect, and can lead to aliasing violations for some
programs.  Maintain the SPNEGO context structure after context
establishment and refer to it in all GSS methods.  Add initiate and
opened flags to the SPNEGO context structure for use in
gss_inquire_context() prior to context establishment.

CVE-2015-2695:

In MIT krb5 1.5 and later, applications which call
gss_inquire_context() on a partially-established SPNEGO context can
cause the GSS-API library to read from a pointer using the wrong type,
generally causing a process crash.  This bug may go unnoticed, because
the most common SPNEGO authentication scenario establishes the context
after just one call to gss_accept_sec_context().  Java server
applications using the native JGSS provider are vulnerable to this
bug.  A carefully crafted SPNEGO packet might allow the
gss_inquire_context() call to succeed with attacker-determined
results, but applications should not make access control decisions
based on gss_inquire_context() results prior to context establishment.

External References:
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b51b33f2bc5d1497ddf5bd107f791c101695000d