CVE-2007-1216
HIGH severity · CVSS 9 · Double free
9CVSS HIGH
Summary
Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1, when used with the authentication method provided by the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via a message with an "an invalid direction encoding".
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24706Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24735Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24736Advisory