CVE-2007-0956

EPSS 25.8%

krb5 - several vulnerabilities

Published: 4/6/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.4.4-8
Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.3.6-2sarge4

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0956