CVE-2008-0948 (GCVE-0-2008-0948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2291 records in the last 180 days details
References
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374121 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
Date Public
2008-03-18 00:00
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