Bug 1190644 (CVE-2015-1546)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1546 openldap: slapd crash in valueReturnFilter cleanup
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cdewolf, dandread, darran.lofthouse, ebenes, fnasser, grocha, huwang, jason.greene, jawilson, jsynacek, jv+fedora, lgao, myarboro, pgier, phracek, pslavice, rmeggins, rsvoboda, scorneli, slawomir, vtunka
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1190646
Bug Blocks:	1190647

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-09 10:41:42 UTC

It was reported [1] that certain queries cause slapd to crash while freeing operation controls.
Upstream report: http://www.openldap.org/its/?findid=8046
Upstream patch: http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f1a2dd329b91afe561cd06b872d09630d4edb6a

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776991

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-09 10:42:24 UTC

Created openldap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1190646]

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2020-03-05 15:47:28 UTC

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/.