161260 – mit-krb5: kadmind (via GSS-API mechglue) frees uninitialized pointers

Bug 161260 - mit-krb5: kadmind (via GSS-API mechglue) frees uninitialized pointers

Summary: mit-krb5: kadmind (via GSS-API mechglue) frees uninitialized pointers

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158810

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2007-01-10 02:34 UTC by Paul B. Henson
Modified:	2007-01-10 14:51 UTC (History)
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Description Paul B. Henson 2007-01-10 02:34:17 UTC

MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2006-003

Original release: 2007-01-09
Last update: 2007-01-09

Topic: kadmind (via GSS-API mechglue) frees uninitialized pointers

Severity: CRITICAL

CVE: CVE-2006-6144
CERT: VU#831452

SUMMARY
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The Kerberos administration daemon, "kadmind", can free uninitialized
pointers, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.  This
vulnerability results from memory management bugs in the "mechglue"
abstraction interface of the GSS-API implementation.  Third-party
applications written using the GSS-API may also be vulnerable.

Exploitation of this vulnerability is believed to be difficult.  No
exploit code is known to exist at this time.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-10 14:51:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158810 ***