Data Handling in Fedora - CVE-2015-1827
Published: March 30, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40859
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1827
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Fedoraproject
Affected software:
Fedora
Fedora
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The get_user_grouplist function in the extdom plug-in in FreeIPA before 4.1.4 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a group list request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1827
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73376
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4908