CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5779
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
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.
Affected configurations
• openldap openldap (< 2.3.29)
• canonical ubuntu linux 5.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz Broken Link, Exploit
- http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml Broken Link, Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22750 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22953 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22996 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23125 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23133 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23152 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23170 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html Broken Link
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/ Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820 Broken Link
- http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz Broken Link, Exploit
- http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml Broken Link, Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22750 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22953 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22996 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23125 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23133 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23152 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23170 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208 Broken Link
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html Broken Link
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/ Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820 Broken Link