CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2007-5894
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
2.69%
Original NVD Description
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.