CVE-2007-1216

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-04-03
Bugzilla:
231537: CVE-2007-1216 krb5 double free flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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".

Find out more about CVE-2007-1216 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (krb5) RHSA-2007:0095 2007-04-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (krb5) RHSA-2007:0095 2007-04-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (krb5) RHSA-2007:0095 2007-04-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (krb5) RHSA-2007:0095 2007-04-03

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank MIT for reporting this issue.

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