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Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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".

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 6, 2007
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

40.464%
(97th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2007-1216

GHSA ID

GHSA-5j9h-62w2-p327

Source code

No known source code

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