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CVE-2008-0948

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 7.27%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-03-19 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2008-0948
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.27%

Original NVD Description

Buffer overflow in the RPC library (lib/rpc/rpc_dtablesize.c) used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2, and probably other versions before 1.3, when running on systems whose unistd.h does not define the FD_SETSIZE macro, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.