CVE-2006-0452

recursion causes OOM with bad DN in dn2ancestor

Published Feb 14, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-0459 dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:34 PM
Reserved
Jan 27, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 14, 2006, 10:06 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Dec 23, 2004, 12:00 AM