CVE-2008-0948

Name	CVE-2008-0948
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
krb5 (PTS)	buster	1.17-3+deb10u4	fixed
	buster (security)	1.17-3+deb10u6	fixed
	bullseye	1.18.3-6+deb11u4	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1.18.3-6+deb11u3	fixed
	bookworm	1.20.1-2+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	1.20.1-5	fixed
	sid	1.20.1-6	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
krb5	source	(unstable)	1.3-1	unimportant

glibc properly defines FD_SETSIZE