CVE-2008-0063

high

Description

The Kerberos 4 support in KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not properly clear the unused portion of a buffer when generating an error message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, aka "Uninitialized stack values."

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%3A8916

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-0076

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?1019627

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://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://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: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03478