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CVE-2026-40355

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2026-04-28 Modified: 2026-07-14

Description

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gss_accept_sec_context() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, causing the process to terminate in parse_nego_message.

Affected Platforms

Mit Kerberos 5

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References