CVE-2009-4653: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 12.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the dhost module in Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 for Windows allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (dhost.exe crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string to /dhost/modules?I:.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.8 only

Published 2010-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.