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CVE-2006-6143

N/A
Published: January 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxKerberos 5

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%

Description

The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (29)

x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDBBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://osvdb.org/31281
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23667
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23696

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-824

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