CVE-2015-1827

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-02-18
CWE:
CWE-131
Bugzilla:
1205200: CVE-2015-1827 ipa: memory corruption when using get_user_grouplist()
It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for a list of groups for a user that belongs to a large number of groups would cause a Directory Server to crash.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1827 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ipa) RHSA-2015:0728 2015-03-26

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Sumit Bose of Red Hat.

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