CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2456
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-07-14
- 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
The DS\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ndsd core dump) via an LDAP request containing multiple . (dot) wildcard characters in the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN).
Affected configurations
• novell edirectory 8.8
References
- http://osvdb.org/55848 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34160 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981 www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35666 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1883 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51705 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/55848 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34160 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981 www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35666 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1883 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51705 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com