CVE-2010-0212: openldap

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2010-0212 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in openldap. EPSS estimates a 5.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 27-07-2010
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-264Permissions, Privileges, and Access ControlsWeaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.