CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-4175

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The LDAP server (ns-slapd) in Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 Patch4 and earlier and ONE Directory Server 5.1 and 5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed queries, probably malformed BER queries, which trigger a free of uninitialized memory locations.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash the directory server, disrupting authentication and access to directory services, causing an operational outage for the organization.

Recommendation

Update Sun Java System Directory Server or ONE Directory Server to the latest version containing the security fix that addresses this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The LDAP server (ns-slapd) in Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 Patch4 and earlier and ONE Directory Server 5.1 and 5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed queries, probably malformed BER queries, which trigger a free of uninitialized memory locations.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS