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CVE-2004-0643

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in the krb5_rd_cred function for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3.1 and earlier may allow local users to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.0
• MIT Kerberos 5: through 1.3.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 3.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 3.0

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000860
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109508872524753&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-350.html
• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2004-002-dblfree.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-543
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-09.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/866472
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11078
• http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0045/
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-247A.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17159
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10267

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