CVE-2006-0452: Red Hat Fedora Core

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.

Affected products

• Red Hat Fedora Core: version 1.0 only

Published 2006-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.