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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-1216

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-1216

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/05/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
02/04/2021

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".

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-krb5
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-devel
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-devel-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-krb5-server
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

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