National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2754
Original release date:06/01/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in st.c in slurpd for OpenLDAP before 2.3.22 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long hostname.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)
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This issue is not exploitable as the status file is only written to and read by the slurpd process. Therefore this is not a vulnerability that affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2006.008
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slurpd/st.c?hideattic=1&sortbydate=0#rev1.22
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slurpd/st.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22&hideattic=1&sortbydate=0&f=h
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1921
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20126
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 25659
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-305-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060609 rPSA-2006-0099-1 openldap openldap-clients openldap-servers
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:096
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200606-17
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20848
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20685
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20495
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:096