National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1852
Original release date:04/16/2008
Last revised:10/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
ovalarmsrv in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 7.51, 7.53, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain requests that specify a large number of sub-arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference due to memory allocation failure.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 28745
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080411 Directory traversal and multiple Denials of Service in HP OpenView NNM 7.53
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29796
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/closedviewx-adv.txt
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019839
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1214