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>> Kerberos Multiple Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Title : Kerberos Multiple Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0922
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0062 - CVE-2008-0063 - CVE-2008-0947 - CVE-2008-0948
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-19


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Kerberos, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information, cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system.

The first issue is caused by errors in KDC when handling krb4 messages, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a krb4-enabled KDC to crash, disclose sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code.

The second vulnerability is caused by an error in KDC when handling incoming krb4 messages, which could be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a krb4-enabled KDC to expose sensitive stack memory data (e.g. secret key data on certain platforms).

The third issue is caused by memory corruption errors in the RPC library when multiple file descriptors are opened, which could result in database corruption or arbitrary code execution.

Affected Products

Kerberos 5 version 1.6.3 and prior

Solution

Apply patches :
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2008-001-patch.txt
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-002.txt

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, Jeff Altman (Secure Endpoints) and Red Hat Security Response Team.

ChangeLog

2008-03-19 : Initial release

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