CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0452

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-02-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2006-02-14
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.

Affected configurations

• redhat fedora core 1.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179137 bugzilla.redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/18960 secunia.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677 www.securityfocus.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24796 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179137 bugzilla.redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/18960 secunia.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677 www.securityfocus.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24796 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com