Running strace on ssh revealed the almost immediately before emiting the "Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information\nNo such file or directory\n" it tries to open a directory /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/authdata which does not exist on my system (and is not contained in any package).
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