National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2930
Original release date:08/29/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 30871
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7891
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7813
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0596
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065
External Source: XF
Name: rhds-ldapsearch-dos(44733)
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0858
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0602
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2480
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020773
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31867
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31702
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31627
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31565
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6078
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02354
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02354