{"vuid":"VU#831452","idnumber":"831452","name":"Kerberos administration daemon may free uninitialized pointers","keywords":["Kerberos","administration daemon","kadmind","arbitray code execution","free uninitialized pointers","GSS-API library"],"overview":"A vulnerability exists in the Kerberos administration daemon that may allow a remote, unauthenticated user to free uninitialized pointers. Freeing uninitialized pointers corrupts memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute code.","clean_desc":"The MIT krb 5 administration daemon contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitary code. According to MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2006-003: This vulnerability results from memory management bugs in the \"mechglue\" abstraction interface of the GSS-API implementation. Note that versions krb5-1.5 through krb5-1.5.1 are affected by this vulnerability. Other server applications that utilize the GSS-API library provided with MIT krb5 may also be affected.","impact":"A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code resulting in the compromise of the Kerberos key database or cause a denial of service.","resolution":"Apply Patch A patch as described in MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2006-003 can be obtained from MIT. MIT also states that this will be addressed in the upcoming krb5-1.6 release and krb5-1.5.2 patch release.","workarounds":"","sysaffected":"","thanks":"This issue is addressed in \nMIT krb5 Security Advisory \n2006-003","author":"This document was written by Chris Taschner.","public":["http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt","http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2006-003-patch.txt","http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2006-003-patch.txt.asc","http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Jan/1017494.html","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975","http://secunia.com/advisories/23903/","http://secunia.com/advisories/23706/","http://secunia.com/advisories/23701/","http://secunia.com/advisories/23690/","http://secunia.com/advisories/23667/"],"cveids":["CVE-2006-6144"],"certadvisory":"","uscerttechnicalalert":null,"datecreated":"2006-12-20T13:50:13Z","publicdate":"2007-01-09T00:00:00Z","datefirstpublished":"2007-01-09T20:52:31Z","dateupdated":"2007-05-10T14:26:07Z","revision":39,"vrda_d1_directreport":"1","vrda_d1_population":"3","vrda_d1_impact":"3","cam_widelyknown":"15","cam_exploitation":"0","cam_internetinfrastructure":"16","cam_population":"15","cam_impact":"20","cam_easeofexploitation":"6","cam_attackeraccessrequired":"20","cam_scorecurrent":"20.925","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknown":"24.3","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknownexploited":"37.8","ipprotocol":"","cvss_accessvector":"","cvss_accesscomplexity":"","cvss_authentication":null,"cvss_confidentialityimpact":"","cvss_integrityimpact":"","cvss_availabilityimpact":"","cvss_exploitablity":null,"cvss_remediationlevel":"","cvss_reportconfidence":"","cvss_collateraldamagepotential":"","cvss_targetdistribution":"","cvss_securityrequirementscr":"","cvss_securityrequirementsir":"","cvss_securityrequirementsar":"","cvss_basescore":"","cvss_basevector":"","cvss_temporalscore":"","cvss_environmentalscore":"","cvss_environmentalvector":"","metric":20.925,"vulnote":null}