CVE-2008-5091: novell edirectory

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5091 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in novell edirectory. EPSS estimates a 2.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 14-11-2008
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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."

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.