CVE-2007-4000 (GCVE-0-2007-4000)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:37
VLAI?
Summary
The kadm5_modify_policy_internal function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c in the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.2 does not properly check return values when the policy does not exist, which might allow remote authenticated users with the "modify policy" privilege to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a write to an uninitialized pointer.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20070… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/26680 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25533 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250976 x_refsource_MISC
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http://secunia.com/advisories/26676 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377544 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3092 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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