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TITLE:
Fedora Directory Server Regular Expression Handler Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30185

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30185/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Fedora Directory Server 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8160/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Fedora Directory Server, which
can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA30181

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users permissions to perform LDAP searches.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nathan Kinder

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444712

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30181:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30181/

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