CVE-2008-0062
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 16.3%krb5 - multiple vulnerabilities
Published: 3/19/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.3.6-2sarge6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |