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.
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Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DSA-1524-1 | New krb5 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities |
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USN-587-1 | Kerberos vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T07:32:23.904Z
Reserved: 2008-01-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-0062

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2008-03-19T10:44:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2008-0062


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