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CVE-2008-0062

Date: March 19, 2008

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.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (51)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29462

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29464

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

Url: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

Url: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30535

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9496

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:071

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29457

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-0062

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41275

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0062

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489761

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0180.html

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/895609

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29428

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29663

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29423

Url: http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29424

Url: http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29438

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29516

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0182.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29435

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29450

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/29451

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28303

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019626

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-0062

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Initialization

CWE-665

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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