CVE-2007-5972 (GCVE-0-2007-5972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-06 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2262 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2007-12-03 00:00
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