CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0063

7.5 HIGH 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])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-908

Description

The Kerberos 4 support in KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not properly clear the unused portion of a buffer when generating an error message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, aka "Uninitialized stack values."

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 (<= 1.6.3) • apple mac os x (< 10.4.11) • apple mac os x (>= 10.5.0 < 10.5.2) • apple mac os x server (< 10.4.11) • apple mac os x server (>= 10.5.0 < 10.5.2) • opensuse opensuse 10.2 • opensuse opensuse 10.3 • suse linux 10.1 • suse linux enterprise desktop 10 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 10 • 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-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References