APP: MIT Kerberos 5 Invalid RFC 1964 Token Denial of Service (TCP)

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against MIT Kerberos 5. A successful attack can result in a denial-of-service condition.

Extended Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

Affected Products

Mit kerberos_5

References

BugTraq: 68908

CVE: CVE-2014-4342

Short Name
APP:KERBEROS:INV-TOKEN-DOS-TCP
Severity
Major
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
APP
Keywords
(TCP) 1964 5 CVE-2014-4342 Denial Invalid Kerberos MIT RFC Service Token bid:68908 of
Release Date
08/11/2014
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3761
Port
TCP/1234
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Mit

Redhat

Debian

CVSS Score

5.0

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