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CVE-2006-6144

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6144 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GSS-API library's "mechglue" interface, affecting Kerberos 5 versions 1.5 through 1.5.1, including the kadmind daemon. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash affected systems by causing the library to free uninitialized pointers. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a medium-severity vulnerability, easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code or significant community discussion available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.5, <= 1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0522 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6144

CVE-2006-6144

References

fedoranews.org / cms/node/2375
Broken Link
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html
Broken Link
osvdb.org / 31280
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/23690
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23701
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23706
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23903
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35151
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/31417
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-925
Broken Link
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
web.mit.edu / kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/831452
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
openpkg.com / security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/21975
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0111
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0112
Third Party Advisory