Resource management error in OpenLDAP - CVE-2011-1081

 

Resource management error in OpenLDAP - CVE-2011-1081

Published: March 20, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45182
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1081
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

modrdn.c in slapd in OpenLDAP 2.4.x before 2.4.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a relative Distinguished Name (DN) modification request (aka MODRDN operation) that contains an empty value for the OldDN field.


Affected software

OpenLDAP

How to mitigate CVE-2011-1081

Install update from vendor's website.


Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

External References

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