CVE-2007-5972

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2007-5972

    CVE-2007-5972

    Published: 6 Dec 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/28636, http://secunia.com/advisories/39290, http://secunia.com/advisories/39784, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211, http://osvdb.org/44747, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High