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CVE-2012-1164

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Description

slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via an LDAP search query with attrsOnly set to true, which causes empty attributes to be returned.

References

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52404

http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7143

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:130

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/49607

http://secunia.com/advisories/48372

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0899.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-29

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.152

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