CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2005-1689
CRITICALEPSS 95th pctl9.8
CVSS v3
Description
Double free vulnerability in the krb5_recvauth function in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain error conditions.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Impact
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
11.01%probability of exploitation in 30 days
95thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000993
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112119974704542&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16041
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17899
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22090
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014461
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101810-1
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2005-003-recvauth.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-757
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-11.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/623332
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_17_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-567.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446940/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14239
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0036
- http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2005/TLSA-2005-78.txt
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1066
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3776
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21055
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9819
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/224-1/
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