CVE-2007-2442

critical

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-06-26

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.39316