CVE-2012-4428 Denial of service in openslp-dfsg

What is CVE-2012-4428?

CVE-2012-4428 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

openslp: SLPIntersectStringList()' Function has a DoS vulnerability

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4428?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Openslp Openslp.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4428?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2012-4428 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4428 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x95h-4fhf-p9gw, SUSE-SU-2015:0922-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4428.