CVE-2009-5072

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the ldap_explode_dn function in IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) 6.0 before 6.0.0.61 (aka 6.0.0.8-TIV-ITDS-IF0003) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an empty string argument.

Affected products

IBM Tivoli Directory Server: 6.0, 6.0.0.0, 6.0.0.1, 6.0.0.7, 6.0.0.8, 6.0.0.14 (+13)

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IO11407
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029672
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IO11407
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029672

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