Buffer overflow in Red Hat Adminutil

CVE-2008-2932

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.034 (87.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Adminutil — versions 1.1.6
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)