CVE-2007-5972: mit kerberos_5

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-5972 is a high (CVSS 9.0) vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 2.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 06-12-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.