CVE-2008-0948

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 (50)

• cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html
• cve@mitrehttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29423
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29424
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29428
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/29663
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/30535
• cve@mitrehttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752
• cve@mitrehttp://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html
• cve@mitrehttp://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html
• cve@mitrehttp://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt
• cve@mitrehttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374121
• cve@mitrehttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489762/100/0/threaded
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489784/100/0/threaded