CVE-2018-1054

389-ds-base: remote Denial of Service (DoS) via search filters in SetUnicodeStringFromUTF_8 in collate.c

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 5, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled certain LDAP search filters. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus resulting in denial of service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')