CVE-2015-6908

Public on 2015-09-11

Modified on 2015-10-09

Description

A flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP server daemon (slapd) parsed certain Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash slapd via a specially crafted packet.

Severity

Important

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.0

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	compat-openldap	2015-10-09 16:33	ALAS-2015-599
Amazon Linux 1	openldap	2015-10-09 16:33	ALAS-2015-599

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-6908 Mitre: CVE-2015-6908 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity