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CVE-2007-1216 Detail

Current 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".

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  04/05/2007
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.5 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 6.8

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Provides administrator access
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11135
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11135

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1
OR
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*    versions up to (including) 5-1.6

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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:
10/16/2018