CVE-2008-0062

Critical

Description

KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductMit Kerberos
PublishedMar 19, 2008
First seenMar 19, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mit kerberos_5v ≤ 1.6.3—
debian debian_linux3.1, 4.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10—
fedoraproject fedora7, 8—

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