CVE-2006-5779

high

Description

OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.

References

Advisories
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2006-5763

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded

http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831

http://secunia.com/advisories/23170

http://secunia.com/advisories/23152

http://secunia.com/advisories/23133

http://secunia.com/advisories/23125

http://secunia.com/advisories/22996

http://secunia.com/advisories/22953

http://secunia.com/advisories/22750

http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml

http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-11-07

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.76265

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