CVE-2007-5901

N/A Unknown

Published: December 06, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/43346

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29451

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29464

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29516

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/39290

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11451

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214