The BDB backend for slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.36 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a…

Description

The BDB backend for slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.36 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a potentially-successful modify operation with the NOOP control set to critical, possibly due to a double free vulnerability.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (25)

• SUSE-SR:2008:010 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:058 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 29225 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1019480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [openldap-bugs] 20070411 (ITS#4925) Modify operation with NOOP control on a BDB backend causes slapd to crash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 28817 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 29682 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 29256 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20080212 rPSA-2008-0059-1 openldap openldap-clients openldap-servers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431203 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 29068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-584-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0110 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 28953 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1541 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-1307 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• [openldap-bugs] 20070411 Re: (ITS#4925) Modify operation with NOOP control on a BDB backend causes slapd to crash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3184 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 29957 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 26245 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 16:18 UTC.