CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0062

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2008-03-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-03-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-665

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.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 (<= 1.6.3) • debian debian linux 3.1 • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • fedoraproject fedora 7 • fedoraproject fedora 8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (4)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References