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

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5779
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30076
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820
• http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz
• http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22750
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22953
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22996
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23125
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23133
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23152
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23170
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1831
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017166
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:208
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_72_openldap2.html
• http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740
• http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.033-openldap.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450728/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20939
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-384-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4379