VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-0062

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability10.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-03-19
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-665: Improper Initialization

Primary references