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CVE-2007-2442

Date: June 26, 2007

The gssrpc__svcauth_gssapi function in the RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.6.1 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a zero-length RPC credential, which causes kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer during cleanup.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (54)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24655

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1323

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0562.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2354

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-177A.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/26228

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472507/30/5970/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25814

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472432/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0384.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25890

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25894

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-11.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1574

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1499

Url: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-004.txt

Url: http://osvdb.org/36596

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25821

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2337

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/356961

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/26033

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472288/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-477-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/26235

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2491

Url: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-004.txt

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35082

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2442

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25911

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_38_krb5.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:137

Url: http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0021/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25870

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10631

Url: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

Url: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02257427

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102914-1

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159

Url: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25801

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25888

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7344

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25800

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

Url: https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/773/3248163_f.SAL_Public.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40346

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018293

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/25841

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2007-2442

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

CWE-824

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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