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CVE-2008-2930 Detail

Description

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/29/2008

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.1 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01532861
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020773
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html Patch
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0602.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0858.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30871 Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44733
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6078
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0596.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00521.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00708.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6078
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6078

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Change History

3 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2930
NVD Published Date:
08/29/2008
NVD Last Modified:
09/28/2017