CVE-2006-6143

no score yetEPSS 8.1%

No CVSS score yet. EPSS 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-824
Published: 2006-12-31
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
mit:kerberos_5

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html

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