CVE-2007-5972 (GCVE-0-2007-5972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-06 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Double free vulnerability in the krb5_def_store_mkey function in lib/kdb/kdb_default.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the free operations occur in code that stores the krb5kdc master key, and so the attacker must have privileges to store this key.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/39290 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/28636 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2007-12-03 00:00
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