Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5901 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0164.NASL description Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC. A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 31616 published 2008-03-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31616 title RHEL 5 : krb5 (RHSA-2008:0164) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0164. The text # itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(31616); script_version ("1.32"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:13"); script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5901", "CVE-2007-5971", "CVE-2008-0062", "CVE-2008-0063", "CVE-2008-0947"); script_bugtraq_id(26750, 28302, 28303); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0164"); script_name(english:"RHEL 5 : krb5 (RHSA-2008:0164)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC. A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding 'v4_mode=none' (without the quotes) to the '[kdcdefaults]' section of /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf. Jeff Altman of Secure Endpoints discovered a flaw in the RPC library as used by MIT Kerberos kadmind server. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash kadmind or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected systems with certain resource limits configured and did not affect systems using default resource limits used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (CVE-2008-0947) Red Hat would like to thank MIT for reporting these issues. Multiple memory management flaws were discovered in the GSSAPI library used by MIT Kerberos. These flaws could possibly result in use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory blocks (double-free flaw), possibly causing a crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971) In addition to the security issues resolved above, the following bugs were also fixed : * delegated krb5 credentials were not properly stored when SPNEGO was the underlying mechanism during GSSAPI authentication. Consequently, applications attempting to copy delegated Kerberos 5 credentials into a credential cache received an 'Invalid credential was supplied' message rather than a copy of the delegated credentials. With this update, SPNEGO credentials can be properly searched, allowing applications to copy delegated credentials as expected. * applications can initiate context acceptance (via gss_accept_sec_context) without passing a ret_flags value that would indicate that credentials were delegated. A delegated credential handle should have been returned in such instances. This updated package adds a temp_ret_flag that stores the credential status in the event no other ret_flags value is passed by an application calling gss_accept_sec_context. * kpasswd did not fallback to TCP on receipt of certain errors, or when a packet was too big for UDP. This update corrects this. * when the libkrb5 password-routine generated a set-password or change-password request, incorrect sequence numbers were generated for all requests subsequent to the first request. This caused password change requests to fail if the primary server was unavailable. This updated package corrects this by saving the sequence number value after the AP-REQ data is built and restoring this value before the request is generated. * when a user's password expired, kinit would not prompt that user to change the password, instead simply informing the user their password had expired. This update corrects this behavior: kinit now prompts for a new password to be set when a password has expired. All krb5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes to address these vulnerabilities and fix these bugs." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5901" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-5971" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-0062" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-0063" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-0947" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0164" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(119, 189, 399); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-libs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-workstation"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2007/12/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/03/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/03/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 5.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu); yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo"); if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo)) { rhsa = "RHSA-2008:0164"; yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa); if (!empty_or_null(yum_report)) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : yum_report ); exit(0); } else { audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa; audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message); } } else { flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"krb5-devel-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", reference:"krb5-libs-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"krb5-server-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"s390x", reference:"krb5-server-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"krb5-server-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"krb5-workstation-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"s390x", reference:"krb5-workstation-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"krb5-workstation-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "krb5-devel / krb5-libs / krb5-server / krb5-workstation"); } }
NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0164.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0164 : Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC. A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67664 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67664 title Oracle Linux 5 : krb5 (ELSA-2008-0164) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0164 and # Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0164 respectively. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(67664); script_version("1.10"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:07"); script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5901", "CVE-2007-5971", "CVE-2008-0062", "CVE-2008-0063", "CVE-2008-0947"); script_bugtraq_id(26750, 28302, 28303); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0164"); script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 5 : krb5 (ELSA-2008-0164)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0164 : Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC. A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding 'v4_mode=none' (without the quotes) to the '[kdcdefaults]' section of /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf. Jeff Altman of Secure Endpoints discovered a flaw in the RPC library as used by MIT Kerberos kadmind server. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash kadmind or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected systems with certain resource limits configured and did not affect systems using default resource limits used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (CVE-2008-0947) Red Hat would like to thank MIT for reporting these issues. Multiple memory management flaws were discovered in the GSSAPI library used by MIT Kerberos. These flaws could possibly result in use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory blocks (double-free flaw), possibly causing a crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971) In addition to the security issues resolved above, the following bugs were also fixed : * delegated krb5 credentials were not properly stored when SPNEGO was the underlying mechanism during GSSAPI authentication. Consequently, applications attempting to copy delegated Kerberos 5 credentials into a credential cache received an 'Invalid credential was supplied' message rather than a copy of the delegated credentials. With this update, SPNEGO credentials can be properly searched, allowing applications to copy delegated credentials as expected. * applications can initiate context acceptance (via gss_accept_sec_context) without passing a ret_flags value that would indicate that credentials were delegated. A delegated credential handle should have been returned in such instances. This updated package adds a temp_ret_flag that stores the credential status in the event no other ret_flags value is passed by an application calling gss_accept_sec_context. * kpasswd did not fallback to TCP on receipt of certain errors, or when a packet was too big for UDP. This update corrects this. * when the libkrb5 password-routine generated a set-password or change-password request, incorrect sequence numbers were generated for all requests subsequent to the first request. This caused password change requests to fail if the primary server was unavailable. This updated package corrects this by saving the sequence number value after the AP-REQ data is built and restoring this value before the request is generated. * when a user's password expired, kinit would not prompt that user to change the password, instead simply informing the user their password had expired. This update corrects this behavior: kinit now prompts for a new password to be set when a password has expired. All krb5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes to address these vulnerabilities and fix these bugs." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-March/000547.html" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected krb5 packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_cwe_id(119, 189, 399); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-libs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-server"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-workstation"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2007/12/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/03/19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/07/12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux"); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 5", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Oracle Linux", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"EL5", reference:"krb5-devel-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"EL5", reference:"krb5-libs-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"EL5", reference:"krb5-server-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"EL5", reference:"krb5-workstation-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "krb5-devel / krb5-libs / krb5-server / krb5-workstation"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-924-1.NASL description Sol Jerome discovered that the Kerberos kadmind service did not correctly free memory. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the kadmind process, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0629) It was discovered that Kerberos did not correctly free memory in the GSSAPI library. If a remote attacker were able to manipulate an application using GSSAPI carefully, the service could crash, leading to a denial of service. (Ubuntu 8.10 was not affected.) (CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971) It was discovered that Kerberos did not correctly free memory in the GSSAPI and kdb libraries. If a remote attacker were able to manipulate an application using these libraries carefully, the service could crash, leading to a denial of service. (Only Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was affected.) (CVE-2007-5902, CVE-2007-5972). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65123 published 2013-03-09 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2010-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65123 title Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-924-1) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0164.NASL description Updated krb5 packages that resolve several issues and fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC. A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43676 published 2010-01-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43676 title CentOS 5 : krb5 (CESA-2008:0164) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_SECUPD2008-002.NASL description The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4 that does not have the security update 2008-002 applied. This update contains several security fixes for a number of programs. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 31605 published 2008-03-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31605 title Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2008-002) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200803-31.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200803-31 (MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities) Two vulnerabilities were found in the Kerberos 4 support in KDC: A global variable is not set for some incoming message types, leading to a NULL pointer dereference or a double free() (CVE-2008-0062) and unused portions of a buffer are not properly cleared when generating an error message, which results in stack content being contained in a reply (CVE-2008-0063). Jeff Altman (Secure Endpoints) discovered a buffer overflow in the RPC library server code, used in the kadmin server, caused when too many file descriptors are opened (CVE-2008-0947). Venustech AD-LAB discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GSSAPI library: usage of a freed variable in the gss_indicate_mechs() function (CVE-2007-5901) and a double free() vulnerability in the gss_krb5int_make_seal_token_v3() function (CVE-2007-5971). Impact : The first two vulnerabilities can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host running krb5kdc, compromise the Kerberos key database or cause a Denial of Service. These bugs can only be triggered when Kerberos 4 support is enabled. The RPC related vulnerability can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to crash kadmind, and theoretically execute arbitrary code with root privileges or cause database corruption. This bug can only be triggered in configurations that allow large numbers of open file descriptors in a process. The GSSAPI vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service conditions or possibly execute arbitrary code. Workaround : Kerberos 4 support can be disabled via disabling the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 31671 published 2008-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31671 title GLSA-200803-31 : MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-2637.NASL description This update incorporates fixes included in MITKRB5-SA-2008-001 (use of uninitialized pointer / double-free in the KDC when v4 compatibility is enabled) and MITKRB5-SA-2008-002 (incorrect handling of high-numbered descriptors in the RPC library). This update also incorporates less-critical fixes for a double- free (CVE-2007-5971) and an incorrect attempt to free non-heap memory (CVE-2007-5901) in the GSSAPI library. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 31668 published 2008-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31668 title Fedora 7 : krb5-1.6.1-9.fc7 (2008-2637) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-2647.NASL description This update incorporates fixes included in MITKRB5-SA-2008-001 (use of uninitialized pointer / double-free in the KDC when v4 compatibility is enabled) and MITKRB5-SA-2008-002 (incorrect handling of high-numbered descriptors in the RPC library). This update also incorporates less-critical fixes for a double- free (CVE-2007-5971) and an incorrect attempt to free non-heap memory (CVE-2007-5901) in the GSSAPI library. This update also fixes an incorrect calculation of the length of the absolute path name of a file when the relative path is known and the library needs to look up which SELinux label to apply to the file. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 31670 published 2008-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31670 title Fedora 8 : krb5-1.6.2-14.fc8 (2008-2647) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20080318_KRB5_ON_SL3_X.NASL description A flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center server (krb5kdc) handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests. (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) This issue only affected krb5kdc with Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is the default setting on Scientific Linux 4. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60373 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60373 title Scientific Linux Security Update : krb5 on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2008-069.NASL description Multiple memory management flaws were found in the GSSAPI library used by Kerberos that could result in the use of already freed memory or an attempt to free already freed memory, possibly leading to a crash or allowing the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971). A flaw was discovered in how the Kerberos krb5kdc handled Kerberos v4 protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory, or possibly %execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated Kerberos v4 protocol requests (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063). This issue only affects krb5kdc when it has Kerberos v4 protocol compatibility enabled, which is a compiled-in default in all Kerberos versions that Mandriva Linux ships prior to Mandriva Linux 2008.0. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by adding v4_mode=none (without quotes) to the [kdcdefaults] section of /etc/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf. A flaw in the RPC library as used in Kerberos last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 38056 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/38056 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2008:069)
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description | Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code. | ||||||||||||
family | unix | ||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11451 | ||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||
submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||||||
title | Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code. | ||||||||||||
version | 18 |
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contributor | Mark J Cox |
lastmodified | 2007-12-14 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5901 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. |
References
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- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214
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