Buffer overflow in Mit Kerberos 5
CVE-2007-5972
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.027 (85.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.2% 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
- Mit Kerberos 5 — versions 1.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/39784 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750 (vdb-entry)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/44747 (vdb-entry)
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/39290 (third-party-advisory)
- ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1 (vendor-advisory)