CVE-2008-4478: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in dhost.exe in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.3, and 8.73 before 8.7.3.10 ftf1, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) Content-Length header in a SOAP request or (2) Netware Core Protocol opcode 0x0F message, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: up to and including 8.7.3.10; version 8.7 only; version 8.7.1 only; version 8.7.3 only; version 8.7.3.8 only; version 8.7.3.8_presp9 only; …

Published 2008-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.