MIT Kerberos up to 5-1.5 ksu resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in MIT Kerberos 5-1.4/5-1.4.1/5-1.4.2/5-1.4.3/5-1.5. This impacts the function ksu. This manipulation causes resource management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2006-3083. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in MIT Kerberos 5-1.4/5-1.4.1/5-1.4.2/5-1.4.3/5-1.5 (Network Authentication Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ksu. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 08/08/2006 by Marcus Meissner, Michael Calmer and Sachin Punadikar with SuSE (Website). The advisory is shared at issues.rpath.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-3083 since 06/19/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 29496 (SuSE 10 Security Update : krb5-apps-servers and krb5-apps-clients (ZYPP Patch Number 1938)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117675 (CentOS Security Update for krb5 (CESA-2006:0612)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28378), Tenable (29496), SecurityFocus (BID 19427†), OSVDB (27872†) and Secunia (SA21402†). Similar entries are available at VDB-31700, VDB-31699 and VDB-84444. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 29496
Nessus Name: SuSE 10 Security Update : krb5-apps-servers and krb5-apps-clients (ZYPP Patch Number 1938)
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OpenVAS ID: 831019
OpenVAS Name: Mandriva Update for netcdf MDVA-2010:129 (netcdf)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mit.edu

Advisory: RHSA-2006:0612⛔
Researcher: Marcus Meissner, Michael Calmer, Sachin Punadikar
Organization: SuSE
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3083 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3083
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-84445

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X-Force: 28378
SecurityFocus: 19427 - MIT Kerberos 5 Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21402
OSVDB: 27872 - MIT Kerberos 5 ksu seteuid() Local Privilege Escalation
SecurityTracker: 1016664
Vupen: ADV-2006-3225

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Created: 05/08/2016 19:56
Updated: 06/21/2025 22:09
Changes: 05/08/2016 19:56 (69), 12/27/2018 11:21 (9), 08/03/2022 09:17 (4), 01/20/2025 22:47 (15), 06/21/2025 22:09 (2)
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