Double Free in Mit Kerberos 5
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".
Vulnerability class: Double Free
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.099 (95.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.099 · newest: 0.099 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mit Kerberos 5
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/24966 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24706 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11135 (Broken Link, signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/24740 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25388 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-1216?
- CVE-2007-1216 is a vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5, classified under Double Free. Published 2007-04-06.
- Is CVE-2007-1216 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.