CVE-2008-0947: Mit Kerberos 5

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.5 only; …

Published 2008-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.