OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2006.033
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/
Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2006.033
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033
Advisory Published: 2010-09-03 22:13 UTC
Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20061110.01
Issue First Created: 2006-11-10
Issue Last Modified: 2006-12-07
Issue Revision: 07
Subject Name: OpenLDAP
Subject Summary: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Toolkit
Subject Home: http://www.openldap.org/
Subject Versions: * <= 2.3.28
Vulnerability Id: CVE-2006-5779
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)
Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector:
Attack Impact: denial of service
Description:
Evgeny Legerov discovered [0] a vendor-confirmed [1] Denial-of-Service
(DoS) vulnerability in OpenLDAP [2]. The vulnerability allows remote
attackers to cause a DoS via a certain combination of LDAP "Bind"
requests that trigger an assertion failure in "libldap". The flaw is
caused by incorrectly computing the length of a normalized name.
References:
[0] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded
[1] http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740
[2] http://www.openldap.org/
Primary Package Name: openldap
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/openldap
Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID openldap-2.3.28-E1.0.0
OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE-20061018 openldap-2.3.27-2.20061018
OpenPKG Community CURRENT openldap-2.3.28-20061022
Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID openldap-2.3.28-E1.0.1
OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE-20061018 openldap-2.3.29-2.20061110
OpenPKG Community CURRENT openldap-2.3.29-20061110