CVE-2006-0453

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-02-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a certain "bad BER sequence" that results in a free of uninitialized memory, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.

Affected products

RedHat Fedora Core: 1.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179135
http://secunia.com/advisories/18960
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24795
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179135
http://secunia.com/advisories/18960
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24795

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