CVE-2006-6143 describes a critical vulnerability in the RPC library of Kerberos 5 versions 1.4 through 1.4.4 and 1.5 through 1.5.1, affecting products like the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other applications utilizing this library. The flaw involves calling an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which can lead to a denial of service (crash) and potentially remote code execution. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit it with medium attack complexity, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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