Buffer overflow in OpenLDAP - CVE-2012-1164
Published: June 29, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32774
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1164
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenLDAP.org
Affected software:
OpenLDAP
OpenLDAP
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via an LDAP search query with attrsOnly set to true, which causes empty attributes to be returned.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1164
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0899.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48372
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49607
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:130
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7143
- http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52404
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788