CVE-2008-0947 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0947
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41273 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html ST 1019631 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29424 Secunia Advisory: SA29663 Secunia Advisory: SA29428 Secunia Advisory: SA29438 Secunia Advisory: SA29516 Secunia Advisory: SA29462 Secunia Advisory: SA29464 Secunia Advisory: SA29451 Secunia Advisory: SA29457 Secunia Advisory: SA29435 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524 CONFIRM http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt CERT-VN 374121 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079B.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489784/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489762/100/0/threaded BID 28302

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