CVE-2008-4480: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 10.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in dhost.exe in Novell eDirectory 8.x before 8.8.3, and 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Netware Core Protocol opcode 0x24 message that triggers a calculation error that under-allocates a heap buffer.

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.