Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openldap  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-OPENLDAP-568330
  • published28 Apr 2020
  • disclosed28 Apr 2020

Introduced: 28 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-12243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openldap package and not the openldap package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In filter.c in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.50, LDAP search filters with nested boolean expressions can result in denial of service (daemon crash).