CVE-2007-1216
Critical
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".
SeverityCritical
CVSS9.0
Exploit probability—
Product
Mit Kerberos
PublishedApr 6, 2007
First seenApr 6, 2007
How to fix
Update
- mit kerberos_51.6.1 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mit kerberos_5 | v < 1.6.1 | 1.6.1 |
| canonical ubuntu_linux | 5.10, 6.06, 6.10 | — |
| debian debian_linux | 3.1, 4.0 | — |
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