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KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 18, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 19, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Feb 18, 2024

Severity

High

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2008-0062

GHSA ID

GHSA-f6c2-j3p8-vxvv

Source code

No known source code

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