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CVE-2007-3999

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2007-09-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the svcauth_gss_validate function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library (librpcsecgss) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.2, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and some third-party applications that use krb5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and probably execute arbitrary code via a long string in an RPC message.

Affected Platforms

Mit Kerberos 5

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References