CVE-2006-5779

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 76.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-617

Description

OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
openldap: before 2.3.29 — fixed in 2.3.29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openldap 2.3.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz
http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/22750
http://secunia.com/advisories/22953
http://secunia.com/advisories/22996
http://secunia.com/advisories/23125
http://secunia.com/advisories/23133
http://secunia.com/advisories/23152
http://secunia.com/advisories/23170
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166

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