CVE-2006-6144
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 5.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.5% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6127)
- Published
- December 31, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6127 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2375(Broken Link)
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0004.html(Broken Link)
- http://osvdb.org/31280(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23690(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23701(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23706(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23903(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35151(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-21.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017494(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-201294-1(Broken Link)
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-003-mechglue.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/831452(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.006.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456409/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21975(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009B.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0111(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112(Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31417(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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