CVE-2021-3480

May 27, 2021

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Summary:

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Reference Links(if available):

  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944640
  • https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MXMOMPTZTGOVFOZUUNXHOVCAYIPST74W/
  • https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GVQCDRQRFHXVR3Z3FQYM3UMC7QZUDDRJ/

  • CVSS Score (if available)

    v2: / MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

    v3: / HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

    Links to Exploits(if available)

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