CVE-2008-2930: Fedora Directory Server

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.

Affected products

• Fedora Directory Server: version 1.1.1 only
• Red Hat Directory Server: version 7.1 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2008-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.