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TITLE:
OpenLDAP BIND Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22750

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22750/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenLDAP 2.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5319/
OpenLDAP 2.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1831/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain
BIND requests. This can be exploited to cause a crash by sending
specially crafted BIND requests to an OpenLDAP server.

The vulnerability is reported in OpenLDAP version 2.2.29. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted people only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Evgeny Legerov

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