CVE-2007-5971

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5971
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-12-06 02:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionDouble 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.4.11 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.5.2 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X Server 10.4.11 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X Server 10.5.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MIT Kerberos Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Red Hat update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-940-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-924-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: krb5-1.6.2-14.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fedora update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
About Security Update 2008-002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.info.apple.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Full Disclosure: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Support | Red Hat af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Red Hat update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
199212 – mit-krb5 lib vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 Security Update 2008-002 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Ubuntu update for krb5 - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ubuntu update for krb5 - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Full Disclosure: Venustech reports of MIT krb5 vulns [CVE-2007-5894 CVE-2007-5901 CVE-2007-5902 CVE-2007-5971 CVE-2007-5972] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
rPath update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: krb5-1.6.1-9.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/43345 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-12-14Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5971 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. See http://marc.info/?m=119743235325151

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