SB2020010323 - Off-by-one in OpenLDAP
Published: January 3, 2020 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020010323
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Off-by-one (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8182)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An off-by-one error leading to a crash was discovered in openldap 2.4 when processing DNS SRV messages. If slapd was configured to use the dnssrv backend, an attacker could crash the service with crafted DNS responses.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.