Upstream information
Description
The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3, when SPNEGO is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via invalid ContextFlags data in the reqFlags field in a negTokenInit token.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 485894, 486722 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SA:2009:019, published Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0000
