CVE-2007-1216
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".
- EPSS
- 9.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-415
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- mit:kerberos_5
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01056923
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html