FKIE_CVE-2008-2932

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-09-12 16:56 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:54
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31777Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/31777Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat adminutil 1.1.6
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