CVE-2008-0062: krb5: uninitialized pointer use in krb5kdc

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.