CVE-2008-6560

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory corruption) via a cluster.conf file with many lines. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries in realistic uses of the product.

Affected products

RedHat Cman: through 2.03.08-1; 2.03.03-1, 2.03.04-1, 2.03.05-1, 2.03.07-1

References

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=67fee9128e54c6c3fc3eae306b5b501f3029c3be
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00163.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00164.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00165.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468966
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49832
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=67fee9128e54c6c3fc3eae306b5b501f3029c3be
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00163.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00164.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00165.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-875-1

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