CVE-2007-1216

krb5 double free flaw

Published Apr 6, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 9.0 Critical EPSS 9.9% KEV · Not listed
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".

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1276-1 New krb5 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-449-1 krb5 vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 cve-icon cve-icon
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24706 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24735 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24736 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24740 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24750 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24757 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24785 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24786 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24817 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25388 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1916 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33413 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1216 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11135 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1216 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:50 PM
Reserved
Mar 2, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 6, 2007, 1:19 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:37 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Apr 3, 2007, 12:00 AM