CVE-2006-6143
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · CWE-824
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html
- http://osvdb.org/31281
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23667
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23696