CVE-2008-5091 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-5091

Buffer overflow in the LDAP Service in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3...

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in the LDAP Service in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before SP10a and 8.8 before SP3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving an "invalid extensibleMatch filter."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

edirectory
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.12a, 8.5.27, 8.6.2, 8.7, 8.7.1, 8.7.3, 8.7.3.8, 8.7.3.8_presp9, 8.7.3.9, 8.7.3.10, 8.8, 8.8.1, 8.8.2

Timeline

Official Publish: November 14th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.