CVE-2008-1842: HP OpenView Network Node Manager

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 12.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in ovspmd.exe in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 8.01, and 7.53 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 8886 that begins with a certain negative integer, which passes a signed comparison and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• HP OpenView Network Node Manager: up to and including 7.53; version 4.11 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.01 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1 only; …

Published 2008-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.