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".

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33413

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1916

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/25388

http://secunia.com/advisories/24966

http://secunia.com/advisories/24817

http://secunia.com/advisories/24786

http://secunia.com/advisories/24785

http://secunia.com/advisories/24757

http://secunia.com/advisories/24750

http://secunia.com/advisories/24740

http://secunia.com/advisories/24736

http://secunia.com/advisories/24735

http://secunia.com/advisories/24706

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-04-06

Updated: 2021-02-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical