CVE-2007-5708 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via segmentation fault in OpenLDAP proxy-caching servers due to improper memory initialization.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-5708?
CVE-2007-5708 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openldap Openldap, published on 30 Oct 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
slapo-pcache (overlays/pcache.c) in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.39, when running as a proxy-caching server, allocates memory using a malloc variant instead of calloc, which prevents an array from being initialized properly and might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unknown vectors that prevent the array from being null terminated.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5708?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openldap Openldap.
How do I fix CVE-2007-5708?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2007-5708 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5708 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openldap Openldap
Sources
Also known as DTSA-87-1, GHSA-g9ph-57wj-hfcf.