CVE-2008-0062
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · CWE-665
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29423
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29424
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29428