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CVE-2014-4342

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2014-4342 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 7 products from debian, from mit, from mit and 4 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2014-07-20T11:12:50.870

Last Modified

2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos	5-1.8	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos	5-1.10.5	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos	5-1.10.6	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos	5-1.10.7	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.7	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.7.1	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.1	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.2	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.3	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.4	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.5	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.8.6	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.9	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.9.1	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.9.2	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.9.3	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.9.4	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.10	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.10.1	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.10.2	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.10.3	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.10.4	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.11	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.11.1	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.11.2	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.11.3	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.11.4	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.12	Yes
Application	mit	kerberos_5	1.12.1	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_desktop	7.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_hpc_node	7.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_server	7.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_workstation	7.0	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7949 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102 Not Applicable ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/60082 Not Applicable ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68908 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94903 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e6ae703ae597d798e310368d52b8f38ee11c6a73 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7949 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102 Not Applicable (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/60082 Not Applicable (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68908 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94903 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e6ae703ae597d798e310368d52b8f38ee11c6a73 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For debian's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.