CVE-2007-5971

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in the gss_krb5int_make_seal_token_v3 function in lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: through 1.6.3_kdc

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199212
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/43345
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/29450
http://secunia.com/advisories/29451
http://secunia.com/advisories/29457
http://secunia.com/advisories/29462

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