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Vulnerability details: VCID-s95d-jex5-aaap
Vulnerability ID VCID-s95d-jex5-aaap
Aliases CVE-2008-0948
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0181
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rhbs medium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435087
cvssv2 9.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0948
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-0948.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-0948
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0948
http://secunia.com/advisories/29423
http://secunia.com/advisories/29424
http://secunia.com/advisories/29428
http://secunia.com/advisories/29663
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41274
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9209
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
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374121
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489762/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489784/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28302
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019631
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079B.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
435087 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435087
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2008-0948 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0948
RHSA-2008:0181 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0181
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0948
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

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medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.94743
EPSS Score 0.18541
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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