CVE-2008-1809: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10b, and 8.8 before 8.8.2 FTF2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an LDAP search request containing "NULL search parameters."

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.7.3 only; version 8.8 only

Published 2008-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.