CVE-2008-0063 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0063?

CVE-2008-0063 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 19 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Kerberos 4 support in KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not properly clear the unused portion of a buffer when generating an error message, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, aka "Uninitialized stack values."

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0063?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Mit Kerberos 5 and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0063?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2008-0063 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0063 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0063, GHSA-67px-r9v8-hcfg.