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CVE-2007-4000 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26676 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26680 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26700 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26728 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26783 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3092 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-006.txt CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-01.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377544 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:174 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0858.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25533 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018647 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3051 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250976 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36438 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  VDB Entry 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9278 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00087.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-4000
NVD Published Date:
09/05/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE