CVE-2014-4345

Off-by-one error in the krb5_encode_krbsecretkey function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.11.x before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of "cpw -keepold" commands.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-2310-1
• Kerberos vulnerabilities
• 11 August 2014

Other references

• http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2014-001.txt
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4345