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CVE-2008-5038

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) feature in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10 before 8.7.3 SP10 FTF1 and 8.8 SP2 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a sequence of "Get NCP Extension Information By Name" requests that cause one thread to operate on memory after it has been freed in another thread, which triggers memory corruption, aka Novell Bug 373852.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published11/12/2008

Last Modified4/9/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

novell:edirectory

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=748(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/48206(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32395(cve@mitre.org)

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31956(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021117(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2937(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46138(cve@mitre.org)

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=748(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://osvdb.org/48206(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32395(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31956(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021117(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2937(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46138(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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