CVE-2008-2930

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-08-27
Bugzilla:
454065: CVE-2008-2930 Directory Server: temporary DoS via crafted pattern searches

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2930 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat IPA 1 for RHEL 5 Server (redhat-ds-base) RHSA-2008:0858 2008-09-10
Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for AS v. 4) RHSA-2008:0602 2008-08-27
Red Hat Directory Server 8 (for RHEL 5 Server) RHSA-2008:0602 2008-08-27
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (for AS v. 3) (redhat-ds) RHSA-2008:0596 2008-08-27

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