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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4743
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-4743

Description:
The original patch for CVE-2007-3999 in svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other applications that use krb5, does not correctly check the buffer length in some environments and architectures, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a buffer overflow attack.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-511-2

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA26987
  Secunia Advisory: SA27643
  Secunia Advisory: SA26699

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0892.html

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1387

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.announce/86

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478794/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478748/100/0/threaded

BID
  26444

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html


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