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CVE-2008-0062

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

4 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
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cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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