CVE-2007-0957: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 10.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 5.10 only; version 6.06 only; version 6.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only; version 4.0 only
• Mit Kerberos 5: before 1.6.1 (fixed in 1.6.1)

Published 2007-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.