CVE-2006-5779

HIGH

7.5

CVSS Score

Published: November 7, 2006 at 06:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxOpenLDAP

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Severity

HIGH7.5

Exploit prediction

EPSS 77%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

5.10 6.06 6.10

OpenLDAP · Openldap

95%

v < 2.3.29

Affected range stops below 2.3.29, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (23)

x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkExploit

Source: [email protected]

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

x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml