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".
2007-04-06T01:19:00.000
2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Deferred
CVSSv2: 9.0 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
8.0
10.0
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
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Application | mit | kerberos_5 | < 1.6.1 | Yes |
Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.10 | Yes |
Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | Yes |
Operating System | canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | Yes |
Operating System | debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | Yes |
Operating System | debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | Yes |