| Name | CVE-2007-4000 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| krb5 (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.18.3-6+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1.20.1-2+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.21.3-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| krb5 | source | sarge | (not affected) | | | |
| krb5 | source | etch | (not affected) | | | |
| krb5 | source | (unstable) | 1.6.dfsg.1-7 | high | | |
Notes
[etch] - krb5 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[sarge] - krb5 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)