Vigil@nce - OpenLDAP: denial of service via search filters
June 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via search filters of
OpenLDAP, in order to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: Debian, OpenLDAP, openSUSE Leap, Solaris, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 29/04/2020.
Revision date: 29/04/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a memory overuse via search filters of
OpenLDAP, in order to trigger a denial of service.
See also VIGILANCE-VUL-32119.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenLDAP-denial-of-service-via-search-filters-32124