CVE-2006-6144
The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors that cause mechglue to free uninitialized pointers.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 5.38% probability · 92th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- mit/kerberos 5
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375Broken Link
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.htmlBroken Link
- http://osvdb.org/31280Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23690Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23701Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23706Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23903Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35151Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1Broken Link
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1Broken Link
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925Broken Link
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375Broken Link
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.htmlBroken Link
- http://osvdb.org/31280Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23690Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23701Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23706Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23903Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35151Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.