CVE-2007-6698

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The BDB backend for slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.36 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a potentially-successful modify operation with the NOOP control set to critical, possibly due to a double free vulnerability.

Affected products

openldap: through 2.3.35

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28817
http://secunia.com/advisories/28953
http://secunia.com/advisories/29068
http://secunia.com/advisories/29225
http://secunia.com/advisories/29256
http://secunia.com/advisories/29682
http://secunia.com/advisories/29957
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059

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