CVE-2007-5972

CRITICAL 9.0CVE-2007-5972 · Published 06/12/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5972 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.0) vulnerability affecting kerberos 5 (mit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 85.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kerberos 5 mit	`= 1.5`	No fix yet

Description

Double free vulnerability in the krb5_def_store_mkey function in lib/kdb/kdb_default.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the free operations occur in code that stores the krb5kdc master key, and so the attacker must have privileges to store this key.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
osvdb.org/44747
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
secunia.com/advisories/28636 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/39290
secunia.com/advisories/39784
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
securityfocus.com/bid/26750
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1
vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012

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