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.
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41274 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0948 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9209 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0948 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:01:40.108Z

Reserved: 2008-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0948

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-03-19T00:44:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-0948

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-03-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0948 - Bugzilla