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MiracleLinux 3 : krb5-1.5-29 (AXSA:2007-01:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 284244

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2007-01:01 advisory.

 Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system, which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure practice of cleartext passwords.
 A stack buffer overflow flaw is discovered in the RPC library used by kadmind. An unauthenticated remote user may be able to cause a host running kadmind to execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2007-3999) An uninitialized pointer flaw is discovered in kadmind.An authenticated user with modify policy privilege may be able to cause a host running kadmind to execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2007-4000)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/22

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 284244

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2007-01.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-3999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:krb5-server, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3999, CVE-2007-4000

IAVT: 2007-T-0037-S