Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-408-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The server-side portion of Kerberos' RPC library had a memory management flaw which allowed users of that library to call a function pointer located in unallocated memory. By doing specially crafted calls to the kadmind server, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the target computer.
Affected
krb5 vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-6143 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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