[SA18888] MailSite LDAP Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

TITLE:
MailSite LDAP Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18888

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http://secunia.com/advisories/18888/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
MailSite 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1698/
MailSite 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5898/
MailSite 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/6895/

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.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-February/002926.html

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