CVE-2007-1216

NameCVE-2007-1216
DescriptionDouble 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".
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ReferencesDSA-1276-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
krb5 (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye1.18.3-6+deb11u5fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.20.1-2+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie1.21.3-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
krb5sourcesarge1.3.6-2sarge4DSA-1276-1
krb5sourceetch1.4.4-7etch1DSA-1276-1
krb5source(unstable)1.4.4-8high
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