CVE-2014-5354

Publication date 16 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
krb5	14.10 utopic	Fixed 1.12.1+dfsg-10ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2ubuntu0.6
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.14

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
krb5	Upstream: 04038bf Upstream: 877ad02

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2498-1
Kerberos vulnerabilities
10 February 2015

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5354