CVE-2008-1677
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the regular expression handler in Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 and 7.1 before SP6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted LDAP query that triggers the overflow during translation to a regular expression.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-120
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1678)
- Published
- May 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1678 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / fedora directory server
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30181(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30185(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0268.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0269.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29126(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020001(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444712(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42332(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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