The checkPassword function in python-kerberos does not authenticate the KDC it attempts to communicate with, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bad response), or have other unspecified impact by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/21/3 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74760 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223802 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/apple/ccs-pykerberos/issues/31 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos Patch Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-08-25T18:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-25T17:57:02

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2015-3206

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-25T18:29:00.637

Modified: 2018-12-20T18:11:58.597


Link: CVE-2015-3206

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