Description
dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.
Published: 2006-02-14
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-0459 dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.
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Redhat Directory Server Fedora Core
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:34:14.821Z

Reserved: 2006-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0452

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-02-14T22:06:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-0452

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2004-12-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-0452 - Bugzilla

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