CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4743

10.0 HIGH Published 2007-09-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The original patch for CVE-2007-3999 in svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other applications that use krb5, does not correctly check the buffer length in some environments and architectures, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a buffer overflow attack.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.4 • mit kerberos 5 1.4.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.4.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.4.3 • mit kerberos 5 1.4.4 • mit kerberos 5 1.5 • mit kerberos 5 1.5.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.5.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.5.3 • mit kerberos 5 1.6 • mit kerberos 5 1.6.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.6.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References