CVE-2007-1216 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2007-1216

Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used...

Vulnerability 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".

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

kerberos 5, ubuntu linux, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 5.10, 6.06, 6.10, 3.1, 4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 6th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.