Bug 245549 (CVE-2007-2798) - CVE-2007-2798 krb5 kadmind buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2007-2798 krb5 kadmind buffer overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-2798
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 239073 245544
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-25 11:49 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:20 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-02-26 15:14:21 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:0384 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: krb5 security update 2007-06-26 18:43:05 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:0562 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: krb5 security update 2008-01-07 22:17:36 UTC

Description Mark J. Cox 2007-06-25 11:49:04 UTC
MIT has reported another flaw to us, CVE-2007-2798:
    The MIT krb5 Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) is vulnerable to
    a stack buffer overflow.

The kadmind code which performs the principal renaming operation
passes unchecked string arguments to a sprintf() call which has a
fixed-size stack buffer as its destination. These strings are the old
and new principal names passed to the rename operation. The attacker
needs to authenticate to kadmind to perform this attack, but no
administrative privileges are required because the vulnerable code
executes prior to privilege verification.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-06-25 11:49:52 UTC
The attacker must be authenticated, therefore this issue is important impact on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2007-06-26 18:22:03 UTC
Lifting embargo: http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-005.txt

Comment 4 Carl Krekorian 2007-07-27 12:32:14 UTC
Support Can you please give me a status on the release for the fix. I need 
rpm's for RHELWSV4 and RHELWSV3 ASAP

Thanks 
-Carl

krekoriancr.navy.mil

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-02-26 15:14:21 UTC
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0384.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0562.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2007-0740




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