CVE-2015-2696 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions prior to 1.14, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and SUSE. An inappropriate context handle in the IAKERB processing allows remote attackers to crash the process via a crafted IAKERB packet during a gss_inquire_context call. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and medium attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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