Upstream information
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".SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | National Vulnerability Database | 
|---|---|
| Base Score | 9 | 
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C | 
| Access Vector | Network | 
| Access Complexity | Low | 
| Authentication | Single | 
| Confidentiality Impact | Complete | 
| Integrity Impact | Complete | 
| Availability Impact | Complete | 
SUSE Security Advisories:
- SUSE-SA:2007:025, published Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:00:00 +0000
 
List of released packages
| Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References | 
|---|---|---|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4  |  
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA krb5-devel-1.6.3-133.49.66.1  | 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA krb5-1.6.3-133.27.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.6.3-133.12  | 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA krb5-1.6.3-133.48.48.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.6.3-133.12  | 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA krb5-1.6.3-133.49.54.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.6.3-133.49.54.1  | 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA krb5-1.6.3-133.49.66.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.6.3-133.49.66.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA krb5-devel-1.6.3-133.49.66.1  | 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA krb5-1.21.3-160000.2.2  | 
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 GA krb5-1.20.1-4.11  | 
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | 
  |  Patchnames:  SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 GA krb5-1.21.3-slfo.1.1_1.2  | 
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10899  | 
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:32:32 2013CVE page last modified: Sun Nov 2 12:16:48 2025