CVE-2008-1677: Red Hat Directory Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the regular expression handler in Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 and 7.1 before SP6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted LDAP query that triggers the overflow during translation to a regular expression.

Affected products

• Red Hat Directory Server: version 7.1 only; version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora Directory Server: version 1.1 only

Published 2008-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.