CVE-2011-4079
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 27, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 18, 2011
Description
Off-by-one error in the UTF8StringNormalize function in OpenLDAP 2.4.26 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) via a zero-length string that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated using an empty postalAddressAttribute value in an LDIF entry.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- GLSA-201406-36vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20111026 CVE Request: openldap2 UTF8StringNormalize() can cause a (one-byte) buffer overflowmailing-list
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7059%3Bselectid=7059
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749324
- USN-1266-1vendor-advisory
- 46599third-party-advisory
- http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=507238713b71208ec4f262f312cb495a302df9e9
- 50384vdb-entry
- openldap-utf8stringnormalize-dos(70991)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20111026 Re: CVE Request: openldap2 UTF8StringNormalize() can cause a (one-byte) buffer overflowmailing-list
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