Denial of Service in Novell eDirectory Due to Wildcard LDAP Requests
CVE-2009-2456

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Novell

Vendor
CVE Published:
14 July 2009

What is CVE-2009-2456?

The DS/NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 prior to Service Pack 5 is susceptible to a denial of service condition, which can be triggered by remote attackers. By crafting an LDAP request containing multiple dot (.) wildcard characters within the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN), an attacker can induce a core dump of the ndsd process, disrupting availability and leading to system instability.

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