CVE-2008-0062

critical

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00544.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00537.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9496

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-0075

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019626

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28303

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489761

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0182.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0180.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:071

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/30535

http://secunia.com/advisories/29663

http://secunia.com/advisories/29516

http://secunia.com/advisories/29464

http://secunia.com/advisories/29462

http://secunia.com/advisories/29457

http://secunia.com/advisories/29451

http://secunia.com/advisories/29450

http://secunia.com/advisories/29438

http://secunia.com/advisories/29435

http://secunia.com/advisories/29428

http://secunia.com/advisories/29424

http://secunia.com/advisories/29423

http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-03-19

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.10141