CVE-2011-1786 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the lsassd daemon in Likewise Open/Enterprise via a malformed Active Directory login attempt, causing denial of service.
- 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-2011-1786?
CVE-2011-1786 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Esx, published on 3 May 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
lsassd in Likewise Open /Enterprise 5.3 before build 7845, Open 6.0 before build 8325, and Enterprise 6.0 before build 178, as distributed in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an Active Directory login attempt that provides a username containing an invalid byte sequence.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1786?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Likewise Likewise Open, Vmware Esx, Vmware Esxi.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1786?
No fix has been published for CVE-2011-1786 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-2011-1786 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1786 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esx
Sources
Also known as GHSA-59fm-p4x5-qvjv.