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CVE-2007-1216 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 metho...

HighCVSS 9.0 EPSS 9.9%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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".

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mit kerberos 5 < 1.6.1 1.6.1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 5.10 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 6.06 No fix listed
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 6.10 No fix listed
debian linux = 3.1 No fix listed
debian linux = 4.0 No fix listed
debian/krb5(Debian:12) < 1.4.4-8 1.4.4-8
debian/krb5(Debian:13) < 1.4.4-8 1.4.4-8
debian/krb5(Debian:14) < 1.4.4-8 1.4.4-8

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