National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4743

Overview

The original patch for CVE-2007-3999 in svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other applications that use krb5, does not correctly check the buffer length in some environments and architectures, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a buffer overflow attack.

Impact

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-319A

Name: TA07-319A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.announce/86

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.announce/86

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3868

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10239

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10239

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-511-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-511-2

External Source: BID

Name: 26444

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070907 FLEA-2007-0050-1 krb5 krb5-workstation

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070906 rPSA-2007-0179-1 krb5 krb5-server krb5-services krb5-test krb5-workstation

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478748/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0892

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0892.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:019

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1387

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1387

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27643

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27643

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26987

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26987

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26699

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26699

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-11-14

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10239

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10239