Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2021-20277 |
CWE-ID | CWE-125 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Amazon Linux AMI Operating systems & Components / Operating system |
Vendor | Amazon Web Services |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU51701
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20277
CWE-ID:
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in ldb_handler_fold() function when processing multiple consecutive leading spaces within LDAP query. A remote user can send a specially crafted LDAP query, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the LDAP server.
Update the affected packages:
i686:Vulnerable software versions
libldb-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
libldb-devel-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
pyldb-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
libldb-debuginfo-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
pyldb-devel-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
ldb-tools-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.i686
src:
libldb-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libldb-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
pyldb-devel-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
pyldb-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
libldb-debuginfo-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
libldb-devel-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
ldb-tools-1.5.4-2.17.amzn1.x86_64
Amazon Linux AMI: All versions
External linkshttp://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2021-1494.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.