suse · CVE-2007-3999

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 12:39:43 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:32:37 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2007-3999 severity moderate: SUSE including 83 source package names (krb5-1.19.2-2.2, krb5-1.20.1-4.11, …), 179 product×package rows across 32 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (32 product lines)): Known Not Affected 90, Fixed 89.

Description:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the svcauth_gss_validate function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library (librpcsecgss) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and some third-party applications that use krb5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and probably execute arbitrary code via a long string in an RPC message.

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