CVE-2008-0948 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0948
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Description: Buffer overflow in the RPC library (lib/rpc/rpc_dtablesize.c) used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2, and probably other versions before 1.3, when running on systems whose unistd.h does not define the FD_SETSIZE macro, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41274 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html ST 1019631 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29423 Secunia Advisory: SA29428 Secunia Advisory: SA29663 Secunia Advisory: SA29424 Secunia Advisory: SA30535 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html 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/1/493080/100/0/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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