CVE-2007-1216
EPSS 25.9%
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".
How to fix CVE-2007-1216
To remediate CVE-2007-1216, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/krb5—upgrade to 1.4.4-8 or later
Is CVE-2007-1216 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 25.9%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.4.4-8