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HP-UX: CVE-2007-2442: Running Kerberos, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Execution of Arbitrary Code

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HP-UX: CVE-2007-2442: Running Kerberos, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Execution of Arbitrary Code

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/26/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/11/2017
Modified
02/04/2021

Description

The gssrpc__svcauth_gssapi function in the RPC library in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.6.1 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a zero-length RPC credential, which causes kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer during cleanup.

Solution(s)

  • hpux-apply-phss-41166
  • hpux-apply-phss-41167
  • hpux-apply-phss-41168
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5-64slib-a
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5-prg-a
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5-run-a
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5-shlib-a
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5ia32slib-a
  • hpux-update-krb5client-krb5ia64slib-a

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