CVE-2011-4079
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.
- EPSS
- 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openldap:openldap
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46599
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
- http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=507238713b71208ec4f262f312cb495a302df9e9
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7059%3Bselectid=7059
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/5