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 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".

Score: CVSS 2.0 9.0 Critical
Status: Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published: 2007-04-06
Last modified: 2024-08-07
Weaknesses: CWE-415

Affected products

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24706
http://secunia.com/advisories/24735
http://secunia.com/advisories/24736
http://secunia.com/advisories/24740
http://secunia.com/advisories/24750
http://secunia.com/advisories/24757
http://secunia.com/advisories/24785
http://secunia.com/advisories/24786
http://secunia.com/advisories/24817
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
http://secunia.com/advisories/25388
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html