MIT Kerberos Administration Daemon Free Pointers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

BID:21975

Info

MIT Kerberos Administration Daemon Free Pointers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 21975
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2006-6144
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 09 2007 12:00AM
Updated: May 15 2009 06:26PM
Credit: Andrew Korty is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SuSE Linux 9.3
SuSE Linux 10.1
SuSE Linux 10.0
Sun Solaris 9_x86
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 8_x86
Sun Solaris 8_sparc
Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
Sun Solaris 10.0
rPath rPath Linux 1
Redhat Fedora Core6
Redhat Fedora Core5
OpenPKG OpenPKG Stable
OpenPKG OpenPKG E1.0-Solid
OpenPKG OpenPKG Current
OpenPKG OpenPKG 2-Stable-20061018
MIT Kerberos 5 1.5.1
MIT Kerberos 5 1.5
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

MIT Kerberos Administration Daemon Free Pointers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

MIT Kerberos 5 is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.

This issue occurs because of memory-management problems in the abstraction interface of the GSS-API implementation.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, completely compromising affected computers. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service conditions.

This issue also affects third-party applications using the affected API.

Exploit / POC

MIT Kerberos Administration Daemon Free Pointers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Solution / Fix

MIT Kerberos Administration Daemon Free Pointers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and a patch. Please see the references for details.


MIT Kerberos 5 1.5

MIT Kerberos 5 1.5.1

References

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