Bug#397673: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#397673: CVE-2006-5779: OpenLDAP BIND Denial of Service Vulnerability

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:53 PM +0100 Stefan Fritsch 
<sf at sfritsch.de> wrote:

>> Can you supply actual details?  This statement isn't very useful
>> without them.
>
> Ups. Of course:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5779
> http://secunia.com/advisories/22750
>
> Proof of concept exploit (not tested) is at
> http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml

I think upstream should handle this, I've already contacted the other OL 
developers.

Of course, this guy is using CRAM-MD5, which isn't even a support SASL mech 
for OpenLDAP, so it is an interesting bug...

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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