CVE-2007-3999

no score yetEPSS 11%

mit kerberos 5: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2007-09-05
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mit:kerberos_5

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007-September/000237.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26676
http://secunia.com/advisories/26680

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