MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution

MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in unauthenticated remote root code execution. mit-krb5 2007-04-03 2007-04-03 171889 remote 1.5.2-r1 1.5.2-r1

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

The Kerberos telnet daemon fails to properly handle usernames allowing unauthorized access to any account (CVE-2007-0956). The Kerberos administration daemon, the KDC and possibly other applications using the MIT Kerberos libraries are vulnerable to the following issues. The krb5_klog_syslog function from the kadm5 library fails to properly validate input leading to a stack overflow (CVE-2007-0957). The GSS-API library is vulnerable to a double-free attack (CVE-2007-1216).

By exploiting the telnet vulnerability a remote attacker may obtain access with root privileges. The remaining vulnerabilities may allow an authenticated remote attacker 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-r1"

CVE-2007-0956 CVE-2007-0957 CVE-2007-1216 jaervosz vorlon