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9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-6143

Published: 31/12/2006 Updated: 09/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 up to and including 1.4.4, and 1.5 up to and including 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 malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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Ubuntu Security Notice: krb5 vulnerability
The server-side portion of Kerberos’ RPC library had a memory management flaw which allowed users of that library to call a function pointer located in unallocated memory By doing specially crafted calls to the kadmind server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the target computer ...

References

CWE-824http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txthttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.htmlhttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.htmlhttp://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21970http://secunia.com/advisories/23696http://secunia.com/advisories/23701http://secunia.com/advisories/23706http://secunia.com/advisories/23707http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:008http://securitytracker.com/id?1017493http://secunia.com/advisories/23667http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-408-1http://secunia.com/advisories/23772https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23903http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24966http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/31281http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31422http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456406/100/0/threadedhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/408-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564
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