CVE-2007-5894

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2007-11-14
Bugzilla:
415311: CVE-2007-5894 krb5: ftpd - use of uninitialized variables

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

** DISPUTED ** 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."

Find out more about CVE-2007-5894 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue is not a vulnerability, for more information see http://marc.info/?m=119743235325151

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