A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Critical Path Injoin Directory Server up to 4.0 (Directory Service Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component LDAP. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Critical Path (1) InJoin Directory Server or (2) LiveContent Directory allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed BER encodings, as demonstrated by the PROTOS LDAPv3 test suite.

The weakness was released 07/16/2001 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2001-1315. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-17010.

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• Directory Service Software

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• Critical Path

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• Injoin Directory Server

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• 4.0

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