CVE-2007-4743

Description

The original patch for CVE-2007-3999 in svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other applications that use krb5, does not correctly check the buffer length in some environments and architectures, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a buffer overflow attack.

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.announce/86

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/26699

http://secunia.com/advisories/26987

http://secunia.com/advisories/27643

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1387

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0892.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478748/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-511-2

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10239

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2