CVE-2021-27212

low

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

Description

In OpenLDAP through 2.4.57 and 2.5.x through 2.5.1alpha, an assertion failure in slapd can occur in the issuerAndThisUpdateCheck function via a crafted packet, resulting in a denial of service (daemon exit) via a short timestamp. This is related to schema_init.c and checkTime.

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.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`2.4.58-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.4.57+dfsg-2`
sid	Fixed	`2.4.57+dfsg-2`
forky	Fixed	`2.4.57+dfsg-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.4.57+dfsg-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.4.57+dfsg-2`

References

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

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