01 Record
CVE-2006-6144
The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, allows
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, allows
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-01-10 00:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-11-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 17bf0e0176b9b272ab2d267a2af8564a6e9f1575884207bfec3bb5b84296e0b1
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comkerberos-gssapi-code-execution(31417)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417
- sunsolve.sun.com102772http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1
- sunsolve.sun.com201294http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1
- www.us-cert.govTA07-009Bhttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html
- secunia.com23690http://secunia.com/advisories/23690
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SA:2007:004http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html
- securitytracker.com1017494http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494
- secunia.com23706http://secunia.com/advisories/23706
- www.securityfocus.com20070109 MITKRB5-SA-2006-003: kadmind (via GSS-API lib) frees uninitialized pointershttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com23903http://secunia.com/advisories/23903
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200701-21http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml
- www.openpkg.comOpenPKG-SA-2007.006http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html
- fedoranews.orgFEDORA-2007-033http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375
- web.mit.eduhttp://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0112http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112
- osvdb.org31280http://osvdb.org/31280
- secunia.com35151http://secunia.com/advisories/35151
- www.securityfocus.com21975http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-0111http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#831452http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452
- secunia.com23701http://secunia.com/advisories/23701