CVE-2007-1216

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    CVE-2007-1216

    Published: 6 Apr 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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".

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070401-01-P.asc, http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/24706, http://secunia.com/advisories/24735, http://secunia.com/advisories/24736, http://secunia.com/advisories/24740, http://secunia.com/advisories/24750, http://secunia.com/advisories/24757, http://secunia.com/advisories/24785, http://secunia.com/advisories/24786, http://secunia.com/advisories/24817, http://secunia.com/advisories/24966, http://secunia.com/advisories/25388, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-02.xml, http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1276, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:077, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0095.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464591/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464666/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464814/30/7170/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23282, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017852, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-449-1, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1218, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1470, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1916, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33413, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11135, http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Apr/msg00001.html, http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2007-003.txt, 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.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Apr/0001.html, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/419344, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-093B.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-109A.html, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11135

    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
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