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CVE-2006-6144 Detail

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Not vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 ship with versions of Kerberos 5 prior to version 1.4 and are therefore not affected by these vulnerabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Official Statement from Mandriva (01/19/2007)

Not vulnerable. Mandriva 2007.0 and earlier ship with Kerberos 5 version 1.4.x and as a result are not vulnerable to these issues.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://osvdb.org/31280 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23690 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23701 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23706 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23903 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35151 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6144
NVD Published Date:
12/31/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/22/2026
Source:
MITRE