Out-of-Bounds Affecting openldap package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.84% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENLDAP-10077990
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17740  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for openldap.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds contrib/slapd-modules/nops/nops.c in OpenLDAP through 2.4.45, when both the nops module and the memberof overlay are enabled, attempts to free a buffer that was allocated on the stack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) via a member MODDN operation.

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