CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4442

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-12-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-12-28
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
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Description

Directory Proxy Server (DPS) in Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 through 6.3.1 does not properly implement the max-client-connections configuration setting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) by making multiple connections and performing no operations on these connections, aka Bug Id 6648665.

Affected configurations

• sun java system directory server 6.0 • sun java system directory server 6.1 • sun java system directory server 6.2 • sun java system directory server 6.3 • sun java system directory server 6.3.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References