Use After Free Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006844
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Dec 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2007

CVE-2007-5901  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.

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