CVE-2006-6143

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.

Category

9.3
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 28.21% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory openpkg.com Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory mit.edu
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017493 broken link third party advisory vdb entry
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376 vendor advisory broken link
http://osvdb.org/31281 vdb entry broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 third party advisory broken link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564 patch third party advisory us government resource
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-408-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html patch us government resource broken link third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23696 third party advisory broken link
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html vendor advisory broken link
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/23706 third party advisory broken link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:008 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23903 third party advisory broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21970 broken link third party advisory vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23667 third party advisory broken link
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml third party advisory vendor advisory
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt patch vendor advisory
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html vendor advisory broken link
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375 vendor advisory broken link
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html broken link third party advisory us government resource
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/23707 third party advisory broken link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111 vdb entry broken link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456406/100/0/threaded broken link mailing list third party advisory vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23772 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/23701 third party advisory broken link
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html vendor advisory mailing list
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 vdb entry broken link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31422 third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-6143?
CVE-2006-6143 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-6143?
To fix CVE-2006-6143, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-6143 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2006-6143 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~28% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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