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Kerberos kadmind "mechglue" Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23690
Release Date: 2007-01-10
Popularity: 10,085 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Kerberos 5.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Kerberos, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of uninitialized pointers when the "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API implementation performs certain error-handling functions. This can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted packet.

The vulnerability is reported in versions krb5-1.5 through krb5-1.5.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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