MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution

MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in remote code execution with root privileges by unauthenticated users. mit-krb5 2007-07-25 2007-07-25 183338 remote 1.5.2-r3 1.5.2-r3

MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol.

kadmind is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the RPC library shipped with MIT Kerberos 5. It fails to properly handle zero-length RPC credentials (CVE-2007-2442) and the RPC library can write past the end of the stack buffer (CVE-2007-2443). Furthermore kadmind fails to do proper bounds checking (CVE-2007-2798).

A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All MIT Kerberos 5 users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.5.2-r3"

CVE-2007-2442 CVE-2007-2443 CVE-2007-2798 jaervosz jaervosz jaervosz