CVE-2015-2698

CVSS V2 High 8.5 CVSS V3 None

Description

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2015-2698

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2015-11-13T03:59:00

Last Modified Date
2020-01-21T15:47:11

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.14:beta2::::::	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
8.5

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
6.8

Impact Score
10

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8273	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/3db8dfec1ef50ddd78d6ba9503185995876a39fd
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00116.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00124.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2810-1

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2698
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2698

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:53:01				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 07:13:41	2015-11-13T03:59Z	2015-11-13T03:59:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 07:13:41		2020-01-21T15:47:11	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 07:13:41		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated