CVE-2006-6144

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.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 26.46% Top 5%

Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory openpkg.com Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory mit.edu

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417	vdb entry third party advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1	vendor advisory broken link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1	vendor advisory broken link
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html	third party advisory us government resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/23690	third party advisory
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html	vendor advisory broken link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494	vdb entry third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23706	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded	mailing list vdb entry third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23903	third party advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375	vendor advisory broken link
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt	patch vendor advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925	broken link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112	vdb entry third party advisory
http://osvdb.org/31280	vdb entry broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/35151	third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975	vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111	vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452	third party advisory us government resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/23701	third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-6144?: CVE-2006-6144 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-6144?: To fix CVE-2006-6144, 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-2006-6144 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-6144 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~26% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.