CVE-2004-1880 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the OpenLDAP back-bdb backend.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2004-1880?

CVE-2004-1880 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openldap Openldap, published on 10 May 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in the back-bdb backend for OpenLDAP 2.1.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1880?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openldap Openldap.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1880?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1880 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-1880 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1880 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-6wp4-7xq4-r96p.

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