CVE-2008-0948

MIT Kerberos 5 1.2.2 - Buffer Overflow in RPC Library via File Descriptor Handling

Title source: llm

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.

References (25)

Core 25

Core References

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9209

US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079B.html

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489784/100/0/threaded

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28302

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/29663

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41274

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references

Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/29428

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/30535

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489762/100/0/threaded

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/29424

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019631

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/29423

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references

US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374121

Scores

EPSS 0.1596

EPSS Percentile 94.9%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (1)

mit/kerberos_5 1.2.2

Published Mar 19, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026