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…

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."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 30947 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1020788 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• novell-edirectory-extensiblematch-dos(43590) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3477912 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373853 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2462 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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)
• 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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:40 UTC.