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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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41277

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1

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://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-03-19

Updated: 2025-04-09

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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02129