CVE-2005-2377 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13271 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:121 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40501