CVE-2007-4743 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.announce/86 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/26699 http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1387 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0892.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478748/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-511-2 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10239