Description
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".
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Remediation
No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-1276-1 | New krb5 packages fix several vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-449-1 | krb5 vulnerabilities |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T12:50:34.980Z
Reserved: 2007-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2007-1216
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Status : Modified
Published: 2007-04-06T01:19:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2007-1216
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DSA
Ubuntu USN