CVE-2007-2442
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 11.4%EU EUVD
The gssrpc__svcauth_gssapi function in the RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.6.1 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a zero-length RPC credential, which causes kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer during cleanup.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-824
- EPSS score
- 11.4% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2437)
- Published
- June 26, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2437 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc(Broken Link)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172(Broken Link)
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02257427(Broken Link)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/36596(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25800(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25801(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25814(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25821(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25841(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25870(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25888(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25890(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25894(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25911(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26033(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26228(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26909(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27706(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40346(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-11.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102914-1(Broken Link)
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-004.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-004.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1323(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/356961(Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:137(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_38_krb5.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0384.html(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0562.html(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472288/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472432/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472507/30/5970/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24655(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018293(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0021/(Broken Link)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-477-1(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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