PT-2008-2559 · Mit+1 · Mit Kerberos 5+1

Jeff Altman + 1 · Published 2008-03-18 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-0947

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions 1.4 through 1.6.3

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

Recommendations For versions 1.4 through 1.6.3, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent remote code execution.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0947

DSA-1524-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10899-1

RHSA-2008:0164

RHSA-2008_0164

Affected Products

Mit Kerberos 5

Red Hat

References · 70

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-0947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0947 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0947 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10899-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070 · Vendor Advisory