CVE-2008-0063
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-908
- EPSS score
- 3.5% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0076)
- Published
- March 19, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0076 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- debian / debian linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- mit / kerberos 5
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- suse / linux
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise software development kit
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Apple Mac OS X v10.3.6 and Apple Mac OS X Server V10.3.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0086-2005 - archived
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562(Broken Link)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html(Mailing List)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00006.html(Mailing List)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29423(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29424(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29428(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29435(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29438(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29450(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29451(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29457(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29462(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29464(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29516(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29663(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30535(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022520.html(Broken Link)
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5022542.html(Broken Link)
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt(Third Party Advisory)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112(Broken Link)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0112(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1524(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-31.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:069(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:070(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:071(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0164.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0180.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0181.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0182.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489761(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489883/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28303(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019627(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-587-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0922/references(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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