CVE-2006-6144 Information

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.

Reference

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html http://osvdb.org/31280 http://secunia.com/advisories/23690 http://secunia.com/advisories/23701 http://secunia.com/advisories/23706 http://secunia.com/advisories/23903 http://secunia.com/advisories/35151 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452 http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925