CVE-2008-0947

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2008-0947 · Published 19/03/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-0947 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting kerberos 5 (mit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.8%, higher than 95.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kerberos 5 mit	`= 1.4= 1.4.1= 1.4.2= 1.4.3= 1.4.4= 1.5= 1.5.1= 1.5.2= 1.5.3= 1.6= 1.6.1= 1.6.2= 1.6.3`	No fix yet

Description

Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html
marc.info
secunia.com/advisories/29424
secunia.com/advisories/29428
secunia.com/advisories/29435
secunia.com/advisories/29438
secunia.com/advisories/29451
secunia.com/advisories/29457
secunia.com/advisories/29462
secunia.com/advisories/29464
secunia.com/advisories/29516
secunia.com/advisories/29663
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml
securityreason.com/securityalert/3752
support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html
support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html

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