CVE-2015-2695

medium
Published 2015-11-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.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 SPNEGO packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected โ€”
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
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ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected โ€”
15.04 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 8 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-3
sid Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-3
forky Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-3
bullseye Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-3
bookworm Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-3
9.0 Affected โ€”
8.0 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mitkerberos_5{"endExcluding":"1.14"}1.14

References

CWEs

CWE-763

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.