CVE-2008-0924: Novell Edirectory

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the DoLBURPRequest function in libnldap in ndsd in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3.9 and earlier, and 8.8.1 and earlier in the 8.8.x series, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or CPU consumption) or execute arbitrary code via a long delRequest LDAP Extended Request message, probably involving a long Distinguished Name (DN) field.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: from 8.7, up to and including 8.7.3.9; from 8.8, up to and including 8.8.1

Published 2008-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.