Resource Management Errors Affecting openldap.org package, versions [,2.4.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.57% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENLDAPORG-2318908
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed20 Mar 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1081  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openldap.org to version 2.4.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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.

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