CVE-2007-5972
Double free vulnerability in the krb5_def_store_mkey function in lib/kdb/kdb_default.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the free
02 Description
Double free vulnerability in the krb5_def_store_mkey function in lib/kdb/kdb_default.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the free
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
- 2.67% 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
- 2007-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6e041cf5c1d34a200c1363ec1f664e44a1fba6672f14709c4d7507e57b5d6a2f
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com39784http://secunia.com/advisories/39784
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-940-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1
- 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
- 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
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1192http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192
- osvdb.org44747http://osvdb.org/44747
- seclists.org20071208 MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilitieshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
- secunia.com39290http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
- ubuntu.comUSN-924-1http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
- secunia.com28636http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211
- 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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