National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5779
Original release date:11/07/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.
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 disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Not Vulnerable. The OpenLDAP versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and earlier do not contain the vulnerable code in question. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-384-1
External Source: BID
Name: 20939
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061106 VulnDisco Pack for Metasploit
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2006.033
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:072
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4379
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017166
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23133
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22996
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22953
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22750
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
External Source: MISC
Name: http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:208
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820
External Source: XF
Name: openldap-bind-dos(30076)
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0066
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:208
External Source: SREASON
Name: 1831
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200611-25
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23170
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23152
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23125