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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1387-1 New librpcsecgss packages fix arbitrary code execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-511-2 Kerberos vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:08:33.521Z

Reserved: 2007-09-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-4743

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-09-06T22:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-4743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4743 - Bugzilla

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