PT-2026-35656
CVE-2026-40355
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Published
2026-04-13
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Updated
2026-10-21
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
MIT Kerberos 5 versions prior to 1.22.3
Description
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when an application calls the
gss accept sec context() function on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this condition, leading to process termination within the parse nego message() function.Recommendations
Update to version 1.22.3 or later.
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