CVE-2008-0062 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0062?

CVE-2008-0062 is a critical vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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: CWE-665

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0062?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Mit Kerberos 5.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0062?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2008-0062 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0062 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0062, GHSA-f6c2-j3p8-vxvv.