CVE-2008-6560
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory corruption) via a cluster.conf file with many lines. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries in realistic uses of the product.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-6523)
- Published
- March 31, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-6523 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / cman
- redhat / cman
- redhat / cman
- redhat / cman
- redhat / cman
- redhat / fedora
- redhat / linux
References
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=67fee9128e54c6c3fc3eae306b5b501f3029c3be
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00163.html
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00164.html
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00165.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468966(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49832
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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