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TITLE:
OpenLDAP modrdn Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28926

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28926/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
OpenLDAP 2.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5943/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenLDAP, which can be exploited
by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the implementation
of modrdn operations. This can be exploited to crash the slapd daemon
via a modrdn operation with a NOOP control.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA27424

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.39. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in CVS repository.
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slapd/back-bdb/modrdn.c.diff?r1=1.197&r2=1.198&f=h

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ralf Haferkamp

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=5358

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27424:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27424/

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