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CVE-2008-0948

N/A
Published: March 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKerberos 5

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%

Description

Buffer overflow in the RPC library (lib/rpc/rpc_dtablesize.c) used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2, and probably other versions before 1.3, when running on systems whose unistd.h does not define the FD_SETSIZE macro, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (25)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29423
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29424
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29428
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/29663
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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