The ISC SPNEGO implementation is based on mod_auth_kerb code. When
CVE-2006-5989 was disclosed, the relevant fix was not applied to the
BIND 9 codebase, making the latter vulnerable to the aforementioned flaw
when "tkey-gssapi-keytab" or "tkey-gssapi-credential" is set in
named.conf.
The original description of CVE-2006-5989 was:
Off-by-one error in the der_get_oid function in mod_auth_kerb 5.0
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a
crafted Kerberos message that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow
in the component array.
Later research revealed that this flaw also theoretically enables remote
code execution, though achieving the latter in real-world conditions is
currently deemed very difficult.
This vulnerability was responsibly reported as ZDI-CAN-12302 ("ISC BIND
TKEY Query Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability") by Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.
Ondřej SurýandMichał Kępień
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