Medium 6.9Published Dec 5, 2007

CVE-2007-5901Use-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.

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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.

CVSS: 6.9 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE): CWE-399
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

mit kerberos_5 mit:kerberos_5	through 1.6.3_kdc	NVD

References

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199214	exploit
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/43346
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29451
http://secunia.com/advisories/29464
http://secunia.com/advisories/29516
http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
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