CVE-2008-5092 (GCVE-0-2008-5092)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-14 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-08-29 00:00
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