CVE-2009-5072: IBM Tivoli Directory Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in the ldap_explode_dn function in IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) 6.0 before 6.0.0.61 (aka 6.0.0.8-TIV-ITDS-IF0003) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an empty string argument.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Directory Server: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.0.0 only; version 6.0.0.1 only; version 6.0.0.7 only; version 6.0.0.8 only; version 6.0.0.14 only; …

Published 2011-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.