Vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5
CVE-2007-4000
The kadm5_modify_policy_internal function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c in the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.2 does not properly check return values when the policy does not exist, which might allow remote authenticated users with the "modify policy" privilege to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a write to an uninitialized pointer.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.061 (93.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.061 · newest: 0.061 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mit Kerberos 5
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-01.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00087.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696 (Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/26680 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26783 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3051 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/26728 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26700 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)