01 Record
CVE-2008-5091
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.10% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-11-14 19:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 588aded5708e3b819890716a0d29e6aacbebcd8b4248b36f60f7a269f0392bdf
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com30947http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
- www.novell.comhttp://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
- www.securitytracker.com1020788http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020788
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comnovell-edirectory-extensiblematch-dos(43590)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43590
- www.novell.comhttp://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt
- www.novell.comhttp://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3477912
- bugzilla.novell.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373853
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2462http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462