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MailSite LDAP Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18888
Release Date: 2006-02-15
Last Update: 2006-02-23
Popularity: 5,441 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:MailSite 5.x
MailSite 6.x
MailSite 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0790


Description:
Evgeny Legerov has reported a vulnerability in MailSite, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the LDAP server within the handling of certain requests. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending malformed LDAP packets to port 389/tcp.

Solution:
Restrict access to the LDAP service.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Evgeny Legerov, GLEG Ltd.

Changelog:
2006-02-23: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-February/002926.html


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