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CVE-2008-0948

Published: 19 March 2008

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.

Priority

Negligible

Status

Package Release Status
krb5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		dapper Not vulnerable
(version later than 1.3)
edgy Not vulnerable
(version later than 1.3)
feisty Not vulnerable
(version later than 1.3)
gutsy Not vulnerable
(version later than 1.3)
upstream Needed

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