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.
Published: 2008-09-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 3.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-2925 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.
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Redhat Adminutil
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:21:34.072Z

Reserved: 2008-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2932

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-12T16:56:20.447

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2932

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2932 - Bugzilla

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