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CVE-2007-5901 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.


Evaluator Description

Information from Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/14/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5901 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214 Exploit 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750 Patch 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11451
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5901
NVD Published Date:
12/05/2007
NVD Last Modified:
09/28/2017
Source:
MITRE