Vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5
CVE-2007-5894
The reply function in ftpd.c in the gssftp ftpd in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) does not initialize the length variable when auth_type has a certain value, which has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the original disclosure misidentifies the conditions under which the uninitialized variable is used. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating " The 'length' variable is only uninitialized if 'auth_type' is neither the 'KERBEROS_V4' nor 'GSSAPI'; this condition cannot occur in the unmodified source code.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.027 · newest: 0.027 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- secunia.com/advisories/29457 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750 (vdb-entry)
- wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html (mailing-list)
- wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html (mailing-list)
- osvdb.org/44333 (vdb-entry)