CVE-2021-3480: A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated…

PriorityP343high7.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.70%

74.9th percentile

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	slapi-nis	< slapi-nis 0.56.5-2 (bookworm)	slapi-nis 0.56.5-2 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
slapi-nis_project	slapi-nis	< 0.56.7	0.56.7
slapi-nis_project	slapi-nis	—	—
slapi-nis_project	slapi-nis	>= 0 < 0.56.5-2	0.56.5-2
slapi-nis_project	slapi-nis	>= 0 < 0.56.5-2	0.56.5-2
slapi-nis_project	slapi-nis	>= 0 < 0.56.5-2	0.56.5-2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv7.5HIGH

vendor_debian7.5HIGH

vendor_redhat7.5HIGH

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