Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- FEDORA
- Published
- 8/29/2008
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
fedora : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_serverredhat : directory_server
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