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CVE-2008-1842 in the critical feed json

Integer signedness error in ovspmd.exe in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 8.01, and 7.53 and earlier, allows remote attackers to…

published 2008-04-16 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1842

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.2%
EPSS 12.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Integer signedness error in ovspmd.exe in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (OV NNM) 8.01, and 7.53 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 8886 that begins with a certain negative integer, which passes a signed comparison and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-31629)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-31629 HP OpenView Network Node Manager 7.x - 'ovspmd' Buffer Overflow dos, 2008-04-08
  • aluigi.org http://aluigi.org/poc/closedview.zip referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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