CVE-2010-0212 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash the OpenLDAP server by sending a modrdn request with a zero-length RDN, causing a null pointer dereference.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2010-0212?

CVE-2010-0212 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openldap Openldap, published on 27 Jul 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenLDAP 2.4.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, which is not properly handled by the smr_normalize function and triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the IA5StringNormalize function in schema_init.c, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0212?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openldap Openldap.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0212?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2010-0212 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0212 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Openldap Openldap vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0212, GHSA-w879-m4wh-92f9.

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