cve-2007-5939
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-12-06 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:47
Severity
Summary
The gss_userok function in appl/ftp/ftpd/gss_userok.c in Heimdal 0.7.2 does not allocate memory for the ticketfile pointer before calling free, which allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via an invalid username. NOTE: the vulnerability was originally reported for ftpd.c, but this is incorrect.
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