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CVE-2008-2218
Buffer overflow in the Multimedia PC Client in Nortel Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) before Maintenance Release 3.5.8.3 and…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.9%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the Multimedia PC Client in Nortel Multimedia Communication Server (MCS) before Maintenance Release 3.5.8.3 and 4.0.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of "extraneous" messages, as demonstrated by the Nessus "Generic flood" denial of service plugin.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- ADV-2008-1404 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30038 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- nortel-mcs-client-bo(42115) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=719698 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 28994 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1019957 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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