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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0948

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-0948

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:

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

ST
  1019631

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29428
  Secunia Advisory: SA29423
  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_5022520.html
  http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.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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