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CVE-2008-6560

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-03-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in CMAN - The Cluster Manager before 2.03.09-1 on Fedora 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory corruption) via a cluster.conf file with many lines. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries in realistic uses of the product.

Affected Platforms

Redhat FedoraRedhat CmanRedhat Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References