CVE-2006-6143

9.3
CVSS v2.0 Base Score
7.92%
LOW RiskEPSS (95th percentile)

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.

Published: 12/31/2006
Modified: 6/16/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v2 Score

9.3

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

7.92%LOW Exploitation Risk
95th percentile

This vulnerability has a 7.92% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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