CVE-2021-3480

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-3480
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-20 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Slapi-nis Project Slapi-nis All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: slapi-nis-0.56.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: slapi-nis-0.56.7-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
1944640 – (CVE-2021-3480) CVE-2021-3480 slapi-nis: NULL dereference (DoS) with specially crafted Binding DN MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: slapi-nis-0.56.7-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: slapi-nis-0.56.7-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159181 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for slapi-nis (ELSA-2021-2032)
  • 159231 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for idm:DL1 (ELSA-2021-1983)
  • 179758 Debian Security Update for slapi-nis (CVE-2021-3480)
  • 239278 Red Hat Update for slapi-nis (RHSA-2021:2032)
  • 239280 Red Hat Update for ipa (RHSA-2021:2027)
  • 239281 Red Hat Update for ipa (RHSA-2021:2026)
  • 239285 Red Hat Update for idm:DL1 (RHSA-2021:1983)
  • 281131 Fedora Security Update for slapi (FEDORA-2021-a4ee3426c4)
  • 281132 Fedora Security Update for slapi (FEDORA-2021-f93243d461)
  • 352382 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for slapi-nis: ALAS2-2021-1646
  • 376994 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for slapi-nis (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0029)
  • 670590 EulerOS Security Update for slapi-nis (EulerOS-SA-2021-2348)
  • 670690 EulerOS Security Update for slapi-nis (EulerOS-SA-2021-2448)
  • 940415 AlmaLinux Security Update for idm:DL1 (ALSA-2021:1983)
  • 960006 Rocky Linux Security Update for idm:DL1 (RLSA-2021:1983)

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