CVE-2008-0948

Description

Buffer overflow in the RPC library (lib/rpc/rpc_dtablesize.c) used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2, and probably other versions before 1.3, when running on systems whose unistd.h does not define the FD_SETSIZE macro, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0948