VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1164

low
Published 2012-06-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.6

Description

slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via an LDAP search query with attrsOnly set to true, which causes empty attributes to be returned.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.4.31-1
sid Fixed 2.4.31-1
forky Fixed 2.4.31-1
bullseye Fixed 2.4.31-1
bookworm Fixed 2.4.31-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openldapopenldap{"endIncluding":"2.4.29"}
openldapopenldap2.4.6
openldapopenldap2.4.7
openldapopenldap2.4.8
openldapopenldap2.4.9
openldapopenldap2.4.10
openldapopenldap2.4.11
openldapopenldap2.4.12
openldapopenldap2.4.13
openldapopenldap2.4.14
openldapopenldap2.4.15
openldapopenldap2.4.16
openldapopenldap2.4.17
openldapopenldap2.4.18
openldapopenldap2.4.19
openldapopenldap2.4.20
openldapopenldap2.4.21
openldapopenldap2.4.22
openldapopenldap2.4.23
openldapopenldap2.4.24
openldapopenldap2.4.25
openldapopenldap2.4.26
openldapopenldap2.4.27
openldapopenldap2.4.28

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.