CVE-2008-1677

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

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.

Affected products

RedHat Directory Server: 7.1-sp1, 7.1-sp2, 7.1-sp3, 7.1-sp4, 7.1-sp5, 8.0
RedHat Fedora Directory Server: 1.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30181
http://secunia.com/advisories/30185
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0268.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0269.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29126
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020001
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444712
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42332
http://secunia.com/advisories/30181
http://secunia.com/advisories/30185
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0268.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0269.html

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