CVE-2024-1062: fedoraproject fedora Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-1062 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-02-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 25-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A heap overflow flaw was found in 389-ds-base. This issue leads to a denial of service when writing a value larger than 256 chars in log_entry_attr.

• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().