CVE-2008-5038

high-risk

Published 2008-11-12

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.

Do I need to act?

20.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 80% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (11)

Edirectory

Affected Vendors

Novell

References (20)

Broken Link http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=748

Broken Link http://osvdb.org/48206

Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32395

Broken Link http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180....

Broken Link http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181....

Broken Link http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981

Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31956

Broken Link http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021117

Broken Link http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2937

Third Party Advisory https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46138