Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3429

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-08-07 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The dns_to_ldap_dn_escape function in src/ldap_convert.c in bind-dyndb-ldap 1.1.0rc1 and earlier does not properly escape distinguished names (DN) for LDAP queries, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (named service hang) via a "$" character in a DN in a DNS query.