CVE-2008-0062

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-665

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Mar 19, 2008
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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