CVE-2006-4175

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-824

Description

The LDAP server (ns-slapd) in Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 Patch4 and earlier and ONE Directory Server 5.1 and 5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed queries, probably malformed BER queries, which trigger a free of uninitialized memory locations.

Affected products

Sun Java System Directory Server: 5.2
Sun One Directory Server: 5.1, 5.2

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=491
http://secunia.com/advisories/24634
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102853-1
http://www.osvdb.org/33524
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23117
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017814
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1090
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33189
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=491
http://secunia.com/advisories/24634
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102853-1
http://www.osvdb.org/33524

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