CVE-2015-2698 — Vulnetix

CVE-2015-2698 PUBLISHED

The iakerb_gss_export_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.14 pre-release 2015-09-14 improperly accesses a certain pointer, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by interacting with an application that calls the gss_export_sec_context function. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2015-2696.

EPSS 0.87% · 75.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.87%

75.5th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	krb5	0, 1.10.1+dfsg-6.1ubuntu1, 1.11.3+dfsg-3ubuntu2

Exploit Intelligence

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/3db8dfec1ef50ddd78d6ba9503185995876a39fd (circl)
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8273 (circl)
openSUSE-SU-2015:2055 (circl)
openSUSE-SU-2015:2376 (circl)
USN-2810-1 (circl)

Timeline

Nov 6, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2698 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2810-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2698 third-party-advisory

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