CVE-2008-0062

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-665

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10
Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8
MIT Kerberos 5: through 1.6.3

References

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/29435
http://secunia.com/advisories/29438
http://secunia.com/advisories/29450
http://secunia.com/advisories/29451

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