CVE-2006-5779 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenLDAP versions prior to 2.3.29, affecting various distributions including Canonical Ubuntu Linux. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the LDAP daemon by sending BIND requests with excessively long authentication IDs, leading to an assertion failure. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) requires no user interaction and has a high impact on availability. Despite its age and high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.3.29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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