CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0283
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.
Affected configurations
• redhat slapi-nis (<= 0.54.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097 git.fedorahosted.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097 git.fedorahosted.org