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CVE-2008-0947

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2008-03-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Mit Kerberos 5

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References