Vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5
CVE-2006-6143
The 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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.079 (94.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.079 · newest: 0.079 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mit Kerberos 5 — versions 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 6.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- osvdb.org/31281 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/24966 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564 (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-408-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23696 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html (Broken Link)