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Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Apr 28, 2026· Updated Apr 28, 2026

CVE-2026-40355

CVE-2026-40355

Description

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gss_accept_sec_context() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, causing the process to terminate in parse_nego_message.

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