CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0957

9.0 HIGH Published 2007-04-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the krb5_klog_syslog function in the kadm5 library, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and Key Distribution Center (KDC), in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via crafted arguments, possibly involving certain format string specifiers.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 (< 1.6.1) • debian debian linux 3.1 • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 5.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References