National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5989
Original release date:11/20/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Off-by-one error in the der_get_oid function in mod_auth_kerb 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Kerberos message that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the component array.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206736
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=136650
External Source: XF
Name: apache-modauthkerb-offbyone-bo(30456)
External Source: BID
Name: 21214
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0746
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4633
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017348
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23251
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23023
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:218
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:218
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1247
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200701-14
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23820
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23681