CVE-2006-6143

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    CVE-2006-6143

    Published: 31 Dec 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/23667, http://secunia.com/advisories/23696, http://secunia.com/advisories/23701, http://secunia.com/advisories/23706, http://secunia.com/advisories/23707, http://secunia.com/advisories/23772, http://secunia.com/advisories/23903, http://secunia.com/advisories/24966, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml, http://securitytracker.com/id?1017493, http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:008, http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456406/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21970, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-408-1, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31422, http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html, http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305391, http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375, http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html, http://osvdb.org/31281, http://securitytracker.com/id?1017493, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/481564, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456406/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21970, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High