CVE-2014-8182

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-07-21
Bugzilla:
1095976: CVE-2014-8182 openldap: crash in ldap_domain2hostlist when processing SRV records
An off-by-one error leading to a crash was discovered in openldap's processing of DNS SRV messages. If slapd was configured to use the dnssrv backend, an attacker could crash the service with crafted DNS responses.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8182 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openldap) RHBA-2015:1292 2015-07-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openldap) RHSA-2015:2131 2015-11-19

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openldap Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Matt Rogers of Red Hat.

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