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.
Published: 2008-03-19
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 16.3% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1524-1 New krb5 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-587-1 Kerberos vulnerabilities
References
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29423 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29424 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29428 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29435 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29438 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29450 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29451 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29457 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29462 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29464 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29516 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29663 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/895609 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:071 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0180.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0182.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489761 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28303 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019626 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41275 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0062 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9496 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0062 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Mit Kerberos 5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.904Z

Reserved: 2008-01-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0062

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-03-19T10:44:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0062

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2008-03-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0062 - Bugzilla

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