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CVE-2008-2932

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via % (percent) encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts in Fedora Directory Server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-2929.

Affected products

• RedHat Adminutil: 1.1.6

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31777
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31777
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html

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