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CVE-2007-1216

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.0 Published: 2007-04-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1, when used with the authentication method provided by the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via a message with an "an invalid direction encoding".

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxMit Kerberos 5Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-415

References