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OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 9, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 7, 2006
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Apr 9, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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(98th percentile)

Weaknesses

Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2006-5779

GHSA ID

GHSA-5794-fx2j-p63j

Source code

No known source code

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