CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2006-6143
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.86%
Original NVD Description
The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.