The kadm5_modify_policy_internal function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c in the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.2 does not properly check return values when the policy does not exist, which might allow remote authenticated users with the "modify policy" privilege to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a write to an uninitialized pointer.
References
Link Resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/26676 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26680 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26700 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26728 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26783 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/26987 Broken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3092 Broken Link
http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-006.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-01.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377544 Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:174 Broken Link
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0858.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25533 Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018647 Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3051 Broken Link
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250976 Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36438 Broken Link VDB Entry
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1696 Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9278 Broken Link
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00087.html Mailing List
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-09-05T10:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-15T20:57:01

Reserved: 2007-07-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2007-4000

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2007-09-05T10:17:00.000

Modified: 2024-02-09T03:24:08.707


Link: CVE-2007-4000

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