CVE-2007-5894

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.69%

Published

Dec 6, 2007

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

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.

Affected Products (1)

mit · kerberos_5vulnerable

References (20)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199205

http://osvdb.org/44333

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/28636

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/29457

Vendor Advisory

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112