CVE-2017-9287

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Published 2017-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

servers/slapd/back-mdb/search.c in OpenLDAP through 2.4.44 is prone to a double free vulnerability. A user with access to search the directory can crash slapd by issuing a search including the Paged Results control with a page size of 0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.7	Affected	—
7.6	Affected	—
7.5	Affected	—
7.4	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
sid	Fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
forky	Fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
8.0	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`2.4.45-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openldap	openldap	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.44"}`
mcafee	policy_auditor	`{"endExcluding":"6.5.1"}`	`6.5.1`
oracle	blockchain_platform	`{"endExcluding":"21.1.2"}`	`21.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-415

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

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