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CVE-2009-2456

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/07/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The DS\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ndsd core dump) via an LDAP request containing multiple . (dot) wildcard characters in the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN).

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*

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