CVE-2007-5972

MIT Kerberos 5 <1.5 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (13)

Core 13
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/39784
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/44747
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012

Scores

EPSS 0.0192
EPSS Percentile 83.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
mit/kerberos_5 1.5
Published Dec 06, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026