diff -up cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/plugins/gssapi.c.release-server_creds cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/plugins/gssapi.c

--- cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/plugins/gssapi.c.release-server_creds	2012-12-20 17:17:37.000000000 +0100

+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/plugins/gssapi.c	2012-12-20 17:42:11.498138999 +0100

@@ -945,6 +945,12 @@ gssapi_server_mech_authneg(context_t *te

 	ret = SASL_CONTINUE;

     }

+    /* Release server creds which are no longer needed */

+     if ( text->server_creds != GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL) {

+        maj_stat = gss_release_cred(&min_stat, &text->server_creds);

+        text->server_creds = GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL;

+     }

+

   cleanup:

     if (client_name_MN) {

 	GSS_LOCK_MUTEX(params->utils);