Description
The telnet daemon (telnetd) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain system access via a username beginning with a '-' character, a similar issue to CVE-2007-0882.
Published: 2007-04-06
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 25.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1276-1 New krb5 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-449-1 krb5 vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24706 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24735 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24736 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24740 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24750 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24755 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24757 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24785 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24786 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24817 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102867-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-001-telnetd.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/220816 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464590/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23281 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017848 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1249 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33414 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0956 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10046 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0956 cve-icon
History

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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Mit Kerberos 5
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:34:21.403Z

Reserved: 2007-02-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-0956

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-04-06T01:19:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-0956

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2007-04-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-0956 - Bugzilla

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