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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...

5.0 MediumFix available

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.

Exploit likelihood

6.52%Up 4.4 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

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.

Record
CVE-2014-4342
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2014-4342
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-4269 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2014-4269
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-734c-f6jq-56f9 No score

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a...

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.

Record
GHSA-734c-f6jq-56f9
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

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.

Record
CVE-2014-4342
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2014-4342 No score

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4342
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVMGASA-2014-0345 No score

Updated krb5 package fixes security vulnerabilities

MIT Kerberos 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342).

MIT Kerberos 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a double-free flaw or NULL pointer dereference, while processing invalid SPNEGO tokens (CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344).

In MIT Kerberos 5, when kadmind is configured to use LDAP for the KDC database, an authenticated remote attacker can cause it to perform an out-of-bounds write (buffer overflow) (CVE-2014-4345).

Record
MGASA-2014-0345
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1 No score

krb5-1.15-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the krb5-1.15-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-4342 No score

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4342
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2310-1 No score

krb5 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain crafted Draft 9 requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-1016)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-1415)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain crafted TGS-REQ requests. A remote authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-1416)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain crafted requests when multiple realms were configured. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-1418, CVE-2013-6800)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain invalid tokens. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be used to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain mechanisms when used with SPNEGO. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be used to cause clients to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4343)

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain continuation tokens during SPNEGO negotiations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4344)

Tomas Kuthan and Greg Hudson discovered that the Kerberos kadmind daemon incorrectly handled buffers when used with the LDAP backend. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-4345)

Record
USN-2310-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
krb5
Debian:12
before 1.12.1+dfsg-4
1.12.1+dfsg-4
krb5
Debian:13
before 1.12.1+dfsg-4
1.12.1+dfsg-4
krb5
Debian:14
before 1.12.1+dfsg-4
1.12.1+dfsg-4
krb5
Debian:6.0
before 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze8, plus listed versions
1.8.3+dfsg-41.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze11.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze21.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze51.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze61.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7
1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze8
krb5
Debian:7
before 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2, plus listed versions
1.10.1+dfsg-51.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2
krb5
Mageia:3
before 1.11.1-1.4.mga3
1.11.1-1.4.mga3
krb5
Mageia:4
before 1.11.4-1.1.mga4
1.11.4-1.1.mga4
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-pkinit-openssl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-pkinit-openssl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-pkinit-openssl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-pkinit-openssl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:1.10.3-33.el6
0:1.10.3-33.el6
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-pkinit
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-pkinit
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-pkinit
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-pkinit
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-server-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5-workstation
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:1.12.2-14.el7
0:1.12.2-14.el7
krb5
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.2, plus listed versions
1.10.1+dfsg-6.1ubuntu11.11.3+dfsg-3ubuntu21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu11.12+dfsg-2ubuntu21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu31.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4
1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.2
krb5
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 1.15-1.1
1.15-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2014-4342 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Mit Kerberos, published July 20, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 6.52%, the 93rd percentile. Fixed in krb5 1.12.1+dfsg-4.

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