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CVE-2008-0062

krb5: uninitialized pointer use in krb5kdc

Published Modified CWE 665
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Red Hat, Oracle.

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux 5krb5-devel, krb5-libs, krb5-server and 1 more1.6.1-17.el5_1.1
debian 11krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 12krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 13krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 14krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
echokrb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
root.io debian 12rootio-krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
root.io debian 13rootio-krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
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SourcePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux 5krb5-devel1.6.1-17.el5_1.1
Oracle Linux 5krb5-libs1.6.1-17.el5_1.1
Oracle Linux 5krb5-server1.6.1-17.el5_1.1
Oracle Linux 5krb5-workstation1.6.1-17.el5_1.1
debian 11krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 12krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 13krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
debian 14krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
echokrb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
root.io debian 12rootio-krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
root.io debian 13rootio-krb51.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4

References

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