CVE-2010-0212
OpenLDAP 2.4.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, which is not properly handled by the smr_normalize function and triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
OpenLDAP 2.4.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, which is not properly handled by the smr_normalize function and triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the IA5StringNormalize function in schema_init.c, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 5.20% probability · 92th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- openldap/openldap
- Source
- cret@cert.org
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40639Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40687Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42787
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=6570Exploit
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41770Exploit, Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024221
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1849Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1858Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40639Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40687Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42787
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=6570Exploit
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.