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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-2754 Detail

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in st.c in slurpd for OpenLDAP before 2.3.22 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long hostname.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006)

This issue is not exploitable as the status file is only written to and read by the slurpd process. Therefore this is not a vulnerability that affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/20126 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/20495 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/20685 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/20848 CVE, MITRE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-17.xml CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:096 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slurpd/st.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22&hideattic=1&sortbydate=0&f=h CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slurpd/st.c?hideattic=1&sortbydate=0#rev1.22 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.008-openldap.html CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.osvdb.org/25659 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436674/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1921 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/305-1/ CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-2754
NVD Published Date:
06/01/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE