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CVE-2008-5092

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% 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

Heap-based buffer overflows in Novell eDirectory HTTP protocol stack (HTTPSTK) before 8.8 SP3 have unknown impact and attack vectors related to the (1) HTTP language header and (2) HTTP content-length header.

Affected products

• Novell eDirectory: through 8.8; 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.12a, 8.5.27, 8.6.2, 8.7 (+20)

References

• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020786
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30947
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020786
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2462

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