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CVE-2007-1216: canonical ubuntu_linux Double Free

CVSS: 9.0v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2007-1216
Published 06-04-2007Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-1216 is a high (CVSS 9.0) Double Free vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 9.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.0/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
9.88%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 1

Timeline

  1. 06-04-2007
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1, when used with the authentication method provided by the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via a message with an "an invalid direction encoding".

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

9.88%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 9.88% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
9.88%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian2 products
Canonical1 product
Mit1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

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