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TITLE:
Red Hat Directory Server Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31627

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31627/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Directory Server 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/18012/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Red Hat Directory Server,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

1) Multiple memory leaks can be exploited to potentially exhaust all
available memory via specially crafted requests.  

2) An error in the processing of LDAP search patterns can be
exploited to trigger a high CPU usage via specially crafted LDAP
requests.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
https://rhn.redhat.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Richard Megginson
2) Ulf Weltman of Hewlett Packard.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0602.html

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