CVE-2008-5091

N/A Unknown

Published: November 14, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

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."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3477912

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020788

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373853

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43590

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt