CVE-2006-5779 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5779?

CVE-2006-5779 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Nov 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5779?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Openldap Openldap.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5779?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5779 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-2006-5779 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5779 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5794-fx2j-p63j.