Out-of-Bounds Affecting krb5 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
37.29% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-KRB5-10078742
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed19 Mar 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Mar 2008

CVE-2008-0947  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for krb5.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1