CVE-2007-1216 — Double Free in Kerberos 5

CWE-415 — Double Free9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
25.9%
top 3.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
MIT Krb5MIT Kerberos 5Canonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 6
Latest updateMay 3

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".

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.0 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDmit/kerberos_5< 1.6.1
▶Debianmit/krb5< 1.4.4-8+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 3.1, 4.0, Ubuntu Linux 5.10, 6.06, 6.10

Patches

Patch: web.mit.edu ↗Patch: web.mit.edu ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5j9h-62w2-p327: Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal↗2022-05-03
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OSV
CVE-2007-1216: Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal↗2007-04-06
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CVEList
CVE-2007-1216: Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal↗2007-04-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
krb5 vulnerabilities↗2007-04-04
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Red Hat
krb5 double free flaw↗2007-04-03
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Debian
CVE-2007-1216: krb5 - Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), a...↗2007
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2007-1216 krb5 double free flaw↗2007-03-08
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CVE-2007-1216 — Double Free in MIT Kerberos 5 | cvebase