{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-12-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "krb5: unauthenticated denial of service in recvauth_common() and others",
    "id" : "1193939",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193939"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5_read_message data field is represented as a string ending with a '\\0' character, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a zero-byte version string or (2) cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by omitting the '\\0' character, related to appl/user_user/server.c and lib/krb5/krb/recvauth.c.", "It was found that the krb5_read_message() function of MIT Kerberos did not correctly sanitize input, and could create invalid krb5_data objects. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a Kerberos child process via a specially crafted request." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-04-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:0794",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "krb5-0:1.10.3-37.el6_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2154",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "krb5-0:1.13.2-10.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "jbossas",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5355\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5355" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-5355",
  "csaw" : false
}