CVE-2007-5972
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CVE-2007-5972
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.
Exploit probability
2.7%
Published
December 6, 2007
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2007-5972
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012