HP OpenView Network Node Manager Message Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-1842)

The Network Node Manager NNM is an HP OpenView product which manages networks. It determines and displays physical and logical connectivity in networks, as well as information referring to protocols running over the network. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in HP OpenView Netwo...

CVE-2008-1842

The CVE-2008-1842 issue affects HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) v8.01 and earlier (7.53 and older), where ovspmd.exe mishandles a long TCP request to port 8886. The described integer signedness error can cause a heap-based buffer overflow, enabling a remote attacker to crash the daemon ...