November 2006

ID: 00784
Ref: 743/2006
Date: 13 November 2006:14:21:26
Version: 1

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Title: OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2006.033 - openldap
Abstract:
Vendors affected: OpenPKG
Operating systems affected: OpenPKG
Applications affected: OpenPKG

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OpenPKG Security Advisory: OpenPKG-SA-2006.033 - openldap

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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. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-5779 [3] to the problem.



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OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG GmbH
http://openpkg.org/security/ http://openpkg.com
OpenPKG-SA-2006.033 2006-11-10
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Package: openldap
Vulnerability: denial of service
OpenPKG Specific: no

Affected Series: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
E1.0-SOLID <= openldap-2.3.28-E1.0.0 >= openldap-2.3.28-E1.0.1
2-STABLE-20061018 <= openldap-2.3.27-2.20061018 >= openldap-2.3.29-2.20061110
2-STABLE <= openldap-2.3.28-2.20061022 >= openldap-2.3.29-2.20061110
CURRENT <= openldap-2.3.28-20061022 >= openldap-2.3.29-20061110

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. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-5779 [3] to the problem.
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References:
[0] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded
[1] http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software Bugs?id=4740
[2] http://www.openldap.org/
[3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5779
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