CVE-2008-0947

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-03-18
Bugzilla:
433596: CVE-2008-0947 krb5: file descriptor array overflow in RPC library

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0947 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (krb5) RHSA-2008:0164 2008-03-18

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank MIT and Jeff Altman of Secure Endpoints for reporting this issue.

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