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CVE-2008-2928
Multiple buffer overflows in the adminutil library in CGI applications in Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7 allow remote attackers…
High10.0EPSS 6.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the adminutil library in CGI applications in Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Accept-Language HTTP header.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453916 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020771 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SSRT080113 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31702 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0596 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 30869 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7642 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7339 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31777 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5865 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- rhds-acceptlanguage-bo(44738) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 31565 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2921 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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