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CVE-2008-1677

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Publication date:
12/05/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the regular expression handler in Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 and 7.1 before SP6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted LDAP query that triggers the overflow during translation to a regular expression.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fedora_directory_server:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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