CVE-2008-0948 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/29423 http://secunia.com/advisories/29424 http://secunia.com/advisories/29428 http://secunia.com/advisories/29663 http://secunia.com/advisories/30535 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3752 http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374121 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489762/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489784/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28302 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019631 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-079B.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1102/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41274 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9209