CVE-2007-5972

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% 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-119

Description

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.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.5

References

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://secunia.com/advisories/28636
http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
http://secunia.com/advisories/39784
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192

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