The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon…

Description

The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors that cause mechglue to free uninitialized pointers.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (22)

• kerberos-gssapi-code-execution(31417) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 102772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 201294 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• TA07-009B (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 23690 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 1017494 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 23706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20070109 MITKRB5-SA-2006-003: kadmind (via GSS-API lib) frees uninitialized pointers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 23903 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• GLSA-200701-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• OpenPKG-SA-2007.006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
• FEDORA-2007-033 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0112 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 31280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 35151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 21975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• VU#831452 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 23701 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:19 UTC.