CVE-2006-0452 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179137 http://secunia.com/advisories/18960 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24796