CVE-2007-5894 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5894
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Description: DISPUTED The reply function in ftpd.c in the gssftp ftpd in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) does not initialize the length variable when auth_type has a certain value, which has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the original disclosure misidentifies the conditions under which the uninitialized variable is used. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating " The 'length' variable is only uninitialized if 'auth_type' is neither the 'KERBEROS_V4' nor 'GSSAPI'; this condition cannot occur in the unmodified source code."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28636 Secunia Advisory: SA29457 OSVDB 44333 MISC http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199205 FULLDISC http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded BID 26750

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