CVE-2006-5989

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Off-by-one error in the der_get_oid function in mod_auth_kerb 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Kerberos message that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the component array.

Affected products

Mod Auth Kerb: 5.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23023
http://secunia.com/advisories/23251
http://secunia.com/advisories/23681
http://secunia.com/advisories/23820
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-14.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017348
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1247
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:218
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0746.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21214
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4633
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=136650

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