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CVE-2023-25564 Not scored

GSS-NTLMSSP vulnerable to memory corruption when decoding UTF16 strings

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.

Exploit probability 1.9%
Published February 14, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change July 22, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

13 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

related ALSA-2023:3097
related OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0048-1
related OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12701-1

04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-25564

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

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