CVE-2021-3480 Information

Description

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944640 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MXMOMPTZTGOVFOZUUNXHOVCAYIPST74W/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVQCDRQRFHXVR3Z3FQYM3UMC7QZUDDRJ/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5