CVE-2006-1470 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1470?

CVE-2006-1470 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 27 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenLDAP in Apple Mac OS X 10.4 up to 10.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid LDAP request that triggers an assert error.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1470?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1470?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1470 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-2006-1470 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-1470 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7769-fqm3-9xc6.