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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6143

Original release date:12/31/2006
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
Not vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 ship with versions of Kerberos 5 prior to version 1.4 and are therefore not affected by these vulnerabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-009B
Name: TA07-009B
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#481564
Name: VU#481564
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564
US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-109A
Name: TA07-109A
Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 31281
Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/31281
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925
Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925
External Source: XF
Name: kerberos-rpc-code-execution(31422)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31422
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-408-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-408-1
External Source: BID
Name: 21970
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21970
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070109 MITKRB5-SA-2006-002: kadmind (via RPC lib) calls uninitialized function pointer
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/456406/100/0/threaded
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2007.006
Hyperlink:http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:008
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:008
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1470
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1470
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0111
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0111
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017493
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017493
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200701-21
Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24966
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24966
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23903
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23903
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23772
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23772
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23707
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23707
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23706
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23706
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23701
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23701
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23696
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23696
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23667
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23667
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:004
Hyperlink:http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-04-19
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-034
Hyperlink:http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-033
Hyperlink:http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.5.1
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6143