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Status published
Medium
CVE-2007-5901
Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29464
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29451
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29516
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
- http://osvdb.org/43346
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11451
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
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Timeline
Official Publish:
December 6th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.