CVE-2015-1546 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1546?

CVE-2015-1546 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 12 Feb 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Double free vulnerability in the get_vrFilter function in servers/slapd/filter.c in OpenLDAP 2.4.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted search query with a matched values control.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1546?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Openldap Openldap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1546?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-1546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2014-7169 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-6271 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-1823 PHP-CGI Query String Parameter Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-30713 Apple macOS Unspecified Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2019-8526 Apple macOS Use-After-Free Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1546, GHSA-cmjm-2wxx-774f.