MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution — GLSA 200701-21

Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

Background

MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol.

Description

The Kerberos administration daemon, and possibly other applications using the GSS-API or RPC libraries, could potentially call a function pointer in a freed heap buffer, or attempt to free an uninitialized pointer.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to crash an affected application, or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.5.2"

References

• CVE-2006-6143
• CVE-2006-6144

Release date
January 24, 2007

Latest revision
January 24, 2007: 01

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 158810