CVE-2007-1216

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".

Category

9.0
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 13.00% Top 10%
Vendor Advisory sgi.com Vendor Advisory hp.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory suse.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory mit.edu
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218 vdb entry third party advisory
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc vendor advisory broken link
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923 vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/24966 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24706 third party advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11135 signature vdb entry third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/24740 third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25388 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24786 third party advisory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391 broken link
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html third party advisory us government resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24735 third party advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html third party advisory us government resource
http://secunia.com/advisories/24750 third party advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33413 vdb entry third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24817 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24757 third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt patch vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1916 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344 third party advisory us government resource
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/24785 third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470 vdb entry third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24736 third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded mailing list vdb entry third party advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-1216?
CVE-2007-1216 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-1216?
To fix CVE-2007-1216, 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-2007-1216 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2007-1216 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~13% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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