MIT krb5 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5355)

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MIT krb5 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5355)
MIT krb5 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5355)


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Affected Systems:

MIT Kerberos 5 <= 1.13.1

Description:

CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-5355

Kerberos is a widely used super-powerful encryption to verify the network protocol between the client and the server.

MIT Kerberos 5 1.13.1 and earlier versions. It is incorrectly considered that the krb5_read_message numeric field is a string ending with the '\ 0' character, which allows remote attackers to pass the zero-byte version string, or, the vulnerability causes a denial of service by ignoring the '\ 0' character.

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Vendor patch:

MIT
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/102bb6ebf20f9174130c85c3b052ae104e5073ec

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