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.
Published: 2007-01-10
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 30.7% Moderate
KEV: No
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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-408-1 krb5 vulnerability
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Mit Kerberos 5
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:34.415Z

Reserved: 2006-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6143

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6143

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