CVE-2010-4746 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4746?

CVE-2010-4746 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Feb 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple memory leaks in the normalization functionality in 389 Directory Server before 1.2.7.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via "badly behaved applications," related to (1) Slapi_Attr mishandling in the DN normalization code and (2) pointer mishandling in the syntax normalization code, a different issue than CVE-2011-0019.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4746?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fedoraproject 389 Directory Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4746?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4746 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-4746 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4746 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-7551 Information disclosure in 389-ds-base Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-15135 Auth bypass in 389-ds-base High 8.1
• CVE-2019-10171 Denial of service in 389-ds-base High 7.5
• CVE-2018-14638 Denial of service in 389-ds-base High 7.5
• CVE-2018-1054 Denial of service in 389-ds-base High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-23jq-44mr-vjqc.