National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5471
Original release date:10/16/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
libgssapi before 0.6-13.7, as used by the ISC BIND named daemon in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 1, terminates upon an initialization error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a GSS-TSIG request. NOTE: this issue probably affects other daemons that attempt to initialize this library within a chroot configuration or other invalid configuration.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/23/2007)
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Not vulnerable. The versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 do not support GSS-TSIG and are not linked with libgssapi library.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/936/3665923_f.SAL_Public.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 26076
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27189
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 40935
External Source: XF
Name: libgssapi-bind-suse-gsstsig-dos(37233)