CVE-2006-6144

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: from 1.5 through 1.5.1

References

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

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