CVE-2007-5471

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

libgssapi before 0.6-13.7, as used by the ISC BIND named daemon in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 1, terminates upon an initialization error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a GSS-TSIG request. NOTE: this issue probably affects other daemons that attempt to initialize this library within a chroot configuration or other invalid configuration.

Affected products

Suse Linux: 10-sp1

References

http://osvdb.org/40935
http://secunia.com/advisories/27189
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26076
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37233
https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/936/3665923_f.SAL_Public.html
http://osvdb.org/40935
http://secunia.com/advisories/27189
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26076
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37233
https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/936/3665923_f.SAL_Public.html

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