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CVE-2007-1216 Detail

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".


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24706 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24735 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24736 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24740 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24750 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24757 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24785 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24786 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24817 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25388 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1916 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33413 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11135 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-415 Double Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-1216
NVD Published Date:
04/05/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE