CVE-2007-5894
The reply function in ftpd.c in the gssftp ftpd in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) does not initialize the length variable when auth_type has a certain value, which has unknown impact and remote authenticated
02 Description
The reply function in ftpd.c in the gssftp ftpd in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) does not initialize the length variable when auth_type has a certain value, which has unknown impact and remote authenticated
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.68% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-12-06 02:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-11-08
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5455a428efd4c734883fb85c90908819df2b011313913e7e01f1058c20570181
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com29457http://secunia.com/advisories/29457
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2008:002http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
- www.securityfocus.com26750http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112
- seclists.org20071208 Venustech reports of MIT krb5 vulns [CVE-2007-5894 CVE-2007-5901 CVE-2007-5902 CVE-2007-5971 CVE-2007-5972]http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112
- www.securityfocus.com20080319 rPSA-2008-0112-1 krb5 krb5-server krb5-services krb5-test krb5-workstationhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199205
- seclists.org20071208 MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilitieshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
- osvdb.org44333http://osvdb.org/44333
- secunia.com28636http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- krb5 Fixed in 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- krb5 Fixed in 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- krb5 Fixed in 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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