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CVE-2015-6908

openldap: ber_get_next denial of service vulnerability

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 9, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP server daemon (slapd) parsed certain Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash slapd via a specially crafted packet.

CVSS score applicability

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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-20 · Improper Input Validation