National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2932
Original release date:09/12/2008
Last revised:10/01/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7339
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7642
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
External Source: XF
Name: redhat-adminutil-encoded-input-bo(45203)
External Source: BID
Name: 31106
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31777
Type: Advisory