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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:02 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Upstream patch available at:
>
> <http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/libraries/libldap/getdn.c>
>
> getdn.c  1.124.2.4 -> 1.124.2.5

Just to note, this bug can be brute-forced via any existing SASL mech, if 
certain conditions are met.  I won't post what those conditions are. :P  So 
this is probably a fairly important patch to get put in place.

--Quanah


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