CVE-2007-5471

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5471
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-16 00:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionlibgssapi 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Suse Suse Linux 10 sp1 enterprise_server All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
osvdb.org/40935 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Novell SUSE ISC BIND Named LibGSSAPI Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/936/3665923_f.SAL_Public.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secure-support.novell.com Patch
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ISC BIND "named" GSS-TSIG Request Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-10-23Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. The versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 do not support GSS-TSIG and are not linked with libgssapi library.

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