CVE-2005-2377

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

nss_ldap 181 to versions before 213, as used in Mandrake Corporate Server and Mandrake 10.0, and other operating systems, does not properly handle a SIGPIPE signal when sending a search request to an LDAP directory server, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crond and other application crash) if they can cause an LDAP server to become unavailable. NOTE: it is not clear whether this attack scenario is sufficient to include this item in CVE.

nss_ldap 181 to versions before 213, as used in Mandrake Corporate Server and Mandrake 10.0, and other operating systems, does not properly handle a SIGPIPE signal when sending a search request to an LDAP directory server, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crond and other application crash) if they can cause an LDAP server to become unavailable. NOTE: it is not clear whether this attack scenario is sufficient to include this item in CVE.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux

First reported 19 years ago

2005-07-26 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 10.0

10.0

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server

References

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13271

MDKSA-2005:121

Patch

nssldap-sigpipe-dos(40501)

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