A vulnerability has been identified in Novell eDirectory, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing overly large LDAP Extended Request messages, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
ChangeLog
2008-03-25 : Initial release
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