CVE-2008-2930

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Fedora Directory Server: 1.1.1
RedHat Directory Server: 7.1-sp1, 7.1-sp2, 7.1-sp3, 7.1-sp4, 7.1-sp5, 7.1-sp6 (+1)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01532861
http://secunia.com/advisories/31565
http://secunia.com/advisories/31627
http://secunia.com/advisories/31702
http://secunia.com/advisories/31867
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020773
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html
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
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065

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