CVE-2006-6143

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6143
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-824 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.06 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.10 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SUSE update for Kerberos - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
About Security Update 2007-004 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.info.apple.com Broken Link
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#481564 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-009B -- MIT Kerberos Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Fedora Core 6 update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
USN-408-1: krb5 vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
OpenPKG Corporation: Security: Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openpkg.com Broken Link
APPLE-SA-2007-04-19 Security Update 2007-004 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com Mailing List
Mandriva update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Kerberos kadmind xprt->xp_auth Code Execution Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
MIT Kerberos 5 RPC Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com Broken Link
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Broken Link
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: krb5-1.5-13 | FedoraNEWS.ORG af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fedoranews.org Broken Link
Ubuntu update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: krb5 security problems (SUSE-SA:2007:004) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.suse.com Broken Link
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Broken Link
osvdb.org/31281 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org Broken Link
Gentoo update for mit-krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu Patch, Vendor Advisory
Kerberos kadmind SVCAUTH_DESTROY() Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Fedora Core 5 update for krb5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-109A -- Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fedoranews.org Broken Link
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 ship with versions of Kerberos 5 prior to version 1.4 and are therefore not affected by these vulnerabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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