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CVE-2015-1546

openldap: slapd crash in valueReturnFilter cleanup

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · February 3, 2015

Updated · May 15, 2026

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.

Statement

Although we do ship the vulnerable function, the attack vector demonstrated in the original report does not apply to us, as we've never backported the patch that introduces this particular attack vector. We're currently unaware of an attack vector that applies to us.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified