CVE-2008-1842

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer signedness error in ovspmd.exe in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 8.01, and 7.53 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 8886 that begins with a certain negative integer, which passes a signed comparison and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

HP Openview Network Node Manager: through 7.53; 4.11, 5.0.1, 5.01, 6.0.1, 6.1, 6.2 (+10)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/closedview-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/closedview.zip
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121321155405849&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/29713
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019821
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493781/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28689
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1159
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41737
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/closedview-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/closedview.zip
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121321155405849&w=2

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