CVE-2006-5779

Public Exploit

Description

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 47.82% Top 5%
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Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23133 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html vendor advisory broken link
http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml broken link exploit
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820 broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/23170 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166 vdb entry exploit broken link third party advisory
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/ vendor advisory broken link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208 vendor advisory broken link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379 vendor advisory broken link vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939 vdb entry exploit broken link third party advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740 issue tracking exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/23152 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz broken link exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/22996 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/22953 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23125 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded broken link mailing list third party advisory vdb entry
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831 third party advisory broken link
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22750 vendor advisory broken link third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-5779?
CVE-2006-5779 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-5779?
To fix CVE-2006-5779, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-5779 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2006-5779 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~48% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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