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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-0947

Published: 19/03/2008 Updated: 21/01/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 up to and including 1.6.3 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

Vulnerability Trend

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mit kerberos 5 1.5

mit kerberos 5 1.5.1

mit kerberos 5 1.4

mit kerberos 5 1.5.2

mit kerberos 5 1.5.3

mit kerberos 5 1.4.3

mit kerberos 5 1.4.4

mit kerberos 5 1.6.2

mit kerberos 5 1.6.3

mit kerberos 5 1.4.1

mit kerberos 5 1.4.2

mit kerberos 5 1.6

mit kerberos 5 1.6.1

Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that krb5 did not correctly handle certain krb4 requests An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted traffic, which could expose sensitive information, cause a crash, or execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063) ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the kdc component of the krb5, a system for authenticating users and services on a network The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0062 An unauthenticated remote attacker may cause a krb4-enabled KDC to crash, expose information, or execute ...

References

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