Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Hitachi Directory Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Hitachi Directory Server LDAP Request Handling Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13801
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13801/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
Hitachi Directory Server 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4505/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Hitachi Directory Server, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of LDAP requests and can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow via a specially crafted, invalid LDAP request.
Successful exploitation crashes the LDAP service or allows execution
of arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Fixes are available (see patch matrix).
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS05-001_e/01-e.html
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hitachi-support.com/security_e/vuls_e/HS05-001_e/index-e.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
US-CERT VU#258905:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/258905
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