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Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 LTS: USN-384-1 Critical: OpenLDAP DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2006
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The Ubuntu OpenLDAP advisory reveals a critical denial of service vulnerability linked to improper authentication handling, urging admins to update systems to prevent abuse.
Evgeny Legerov discovered that the OpenLDAP libraries did not correctly truncate authcid names

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security advisory denial of service critical software update openldap ubuntu authcid

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-384-1 November 20, 2006

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security advisory denial of service critical software update openldap ubuntu authcid

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