DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0948

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0948

    Published: 19 Mar 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-0948

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0948

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: krb5

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/krb5?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High