Out-of-Bounds Affecting krb5 package, versions <1.6.dfsg.1-7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
52.12% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-KRB5-396027
  • published6 Sept 2007
  • disclosed6 Sept 2007

Introduced: 6 Sep 2007

CVE-2007-4743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 krb5 to version 1.6.dfsg.1-7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5 package and not the krb5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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