CVE-2008-2932

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via % (percent) encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts in Fedora Directory Server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-2929.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106

http://secunia.com/advisories/31777

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-12

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical