IBM Tivoli Directory Server Double-Free Vulnerability |
Written by Rebecca Mints |
Monday, 30 June 2008 05:36 |
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Tivoli Directory Server, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a double-free error when handling certain requests and can be exploited by adding e.g. a certain existing entry via ldapadd.
Successful exploitation allows to crash the server and potentially to execute arbitrary code, but requires ldap administrator privileges.
The vulnerability is reported in 6.1.0.0 - 6.1.0.15.
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