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CVE-2008-5091

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the LDAP Service in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before SP10a and 8.8 before SP3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving an "invalid extensibleMatch filter."

Affected products

• Novell eDirectory: through 8.8; 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.12a, 8.5.27, 8.6.2, 8.7 (+18)

References

• http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3477912
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020788
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373853
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43590
• http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir873/sp10_readme/netware/readme.txt
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3477912
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947

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