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CVE-2007-5901

Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9 EPSS 0.00111
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Affected Products & Versions

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mit kerberos 5<= 1.6.3_kdc
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocbugs.gentoo.org · show_bug.cgi?id=199214bugs.gentoo.org
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Scoring & Timeline

6.9
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD06 Dec 2007 · 02:46 AM
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Vendor Advisories

2
usnUSN-924-1
rhsaRHSA-2008:0164Critical
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/43346
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29451
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