CVE-2007-5901
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Use-after-free vulnerability 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5871)
- Published
- December 6, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5871 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214(Exploit)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/43346
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29451
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29464
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29516
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11451
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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