LDAP Denial of Service Vulnerability in nss_ldap

CVE-2005-2377 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

nss_ldap 181 to versions before 213, as used in Mandrake Corporate Server and Mandrake 10.0, and other operating systems, does not properly handle a SIGPIPE signal when sending a search request to an LDAP directory server, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crond and other application crash) if they can cause an LDAP server to become unavailable. NOTE: it is not clear whether this attack scenario is sufficient to include this item in CVE.

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