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CVE-2009-3862

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-11-04 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The NDSD process in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf2 and eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.5 ftf1 does not properly handle certain LDAP search requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a search request with a NULL BaseDN value.

Affected Platforms

Novell Edirectory

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References