CVE-2015-2696 Information

Description

lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 relies on an inappropriate context handle which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer read and process crash) via a crafted IAKERB packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.

Reference

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8244 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00022.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3395 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90675 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034084 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2810-1 https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e04f0283516e80d2f93366e0d479d13c9b5c8c2a https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-14