CVE-2023-25564

Publication date 14 February 2023

Last updated 24 June 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, memory corruption can be triggered when decoding UTF16 strings. The variable `outlen` was not initialized and could cause writing a zero to an arbitrary place in memory if `ntlm_str_convert()` were to fail, which would leave `outlen` uninitialized. This can lead to a denial of service if the write hits unmapped memory or randomly corrupts a byte in the application memory space. This vulnerability can trigger an out-of-bounds write, leading to memory corruption. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gss-ntlmssp 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.7.0-4ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.7.0-4ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.7.0-4ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.7.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H