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CVE-2006-4175 (GCVE-0-2006-4175)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-03-26 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:57
VLAI
Summary
The LDAP server (ns-slapd) in Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 Patch4 and earlier and ONE Directory Server 5.1 and 5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed queries, probably malformed BER queries, which trigger a free of uninitialized memory locations.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1090 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.osvdb.org/33524 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/24634 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017814 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23117 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-03-23 00:00
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