CVE-2009-2456: Novell Edirectory

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DS\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ndsd core dump) via an LDAP request containing multiple . (dot) wildcard characters in the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN).

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.8 only

Published 2009-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.