CVE-2008-4479: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 10.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in dhost.exe in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.3, and 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SOAP request with a long Accept-Language header.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: from 8.7.3, before 8.7.3.10 (fixed in 8.7.3.10); from 8.8, before 8.8.3 (fixed in 8.8.3)

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