CVE-2007-5901: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the gss_indicate_mechs function in lib/gssapi/mechglue/g_initialize.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: this might be the result of a typo in the source code.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: up to and including 1.6.3_kdc

Published 2007-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.