LDAP: OpenLDAP ber_get_next BER Decoding Denial of Service

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against OpenLDAP. A successful attack can result in a denial-of-service condition.

Extended Description

OpenLDAP is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to deny service to legitimate users by crashing affected servers. OpenLDAP 2.3.41 is vulnerable to this issue; earlier versions back to approximately 2.1.18 as well as newer versions may also be affected.

Affected Products

Pardus linux_2007,Openldap openldap

References

BugTraq: 30013

CVE: CVE-2008-2952

Short Name
LDAP:BER-DOS
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
LDAP
Keywords
BER CVE-2008-2952 Decoding Denial OpenLDAP Service ber_get_next bid:30013 of
Release Date
10/11/2010
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3336
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Red_hat

Suse

Apple

Gentoo

Rpath

Turbolinux

Openldap

Pardus

Ubuntu

Mandriva

Debian

CVSS Score

5.0

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