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CVE-2006-6144The "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API library for Kerberos 5 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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 remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors that cause mechglue to free uninitialized pointers.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References22
- kerberos-gssapi-code-execution(31417) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 102772 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 201294 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- TA07-009B (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 23690 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1017494 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 23706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070109 MITKRB5-SA-2006-003: kadmind (via GSS-API lib) frees uninitialized pointers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 23903 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200701-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2007.006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-033 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0112 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 35151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21975 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#831452 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 23701 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-6127 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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