CVE-2008-0948
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 19, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 25, 2008
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 3752third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9209vdb-entrysignature
- TA08-079Bthird-party-advisory
- ADV-2008-1744vdb-entry
- 20080318 MITKRB5-SA-2008-002: array overrun in RPC library used by kadmin (resend, corrected subject)mailing-list
- 28302vdb-entry
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html
- SSRT100495vendor-advisory
- 29663third-party-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
- krb5-rpclibrary-fdsetsize-bo(41274)vdb-entry
- ADV-2008-0922vdb-entry
- 29428third-party-advisory
- 30535third-party-advisory
- 20080318 MITKRB5-SA-2008-001: double-free, uninitialized data vulnerabilities in krb5kdcmailing-list
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html
- 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issuesmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2008:016vendor-advisory
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt
- 29424third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2008:0181vendor-advisory
- 1019631vdb-entry
- 29423third-party-advisory
- ADV-2008-1102vdb-entry
- VU#374121third-party-advisory
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