CVE-2007-0957

CriticalCVSS 9.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the krb5_klog_syslog function in the kadm5 library, as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and Key Distribution Center (KDC), in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via crafted arguments, possibly involving certain format string specifiers.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Apr 6, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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