CVE-2010-0212

Public Exploit

Description

OpenLDAP 2.4.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, which is not properly handled by the smr_normalize function and triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the IA5StringNormalize function in schema_init.c, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 64.01% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory vupen.com Vendor Advisory vupen.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024221 vdb entry
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml vendor advisory
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=6570 exploit
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1858 vdb entry vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1849 vdb entry patch vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41770 exploit vdb entry patch
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/40687 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded mailing list
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html vendor advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://secunia.com/advisories/40639 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42787 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025 vdb entry
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2010-0212?
CVE-2010-0212 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2010-0212?
To fix CVE-2010-0212, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2010-0212 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2010-0212 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~64% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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