CVE-2006-6143

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6143 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 ship with versions of Kerberos 5 prior to version 1.4 and are therefore not affected by these vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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