Bug 245548 (CVE-2007-2443)

The MIT Kerberos Team has made us aware of this following flaw in krb5:
CVE-2007-2443: The RPC library can write past the end of a stack
buffer.

CVE-2007-2443: The function gssrpc__svcauth_unix() in
src/lib/rpc/svc_auth_unix.c stores an unsigned integer obtained from
IXDR_GET_U_LONG into a signed integer variable "str_len".
Subsequently, it checks that "str_len" is less than MAX_MACHINE_NAME,
which will always be true of "str_len" is negative, which can happen
when a large unsigned integer is converted to a signed integer.  Once
the length check succeeds, gssrpc__svcauth_unix() calls memmove() with
a length of "str_len" with the target in a stack buffer.

This vulnerability is believed to be difficult to exploit because the
memmove() implementation receives a very large number (a negative
integer converted to a large unsigned value), which will almost
certainly cause some sort of memory access fault prior to returning.
This probably avoids any usage of the corrupted return address in the
overwritten stack frame.  Note that some (perhaps unlikely) memmove()
implementations may call other procedures and thus may be vulnerable
to corrupted return addresses.