Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 11:00
Modified
2026-01-08 18:07
Summary
Details

In OpenLDAP through 2.4.57 and 2.5.x through 2.5.1alpha, an assertion failure in slapd can occur in the issuerAndThisUpdateCheck function via a crafted packet, resulting in a denial of service (daemon exit) via a short timestamp. This is related to schema_init.c and checkTime.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "openldap",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/openldap"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.4.58"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-27212"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.5.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.5.1:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "In OpenLDAP through 2.4.57 and 2.5.x through 2.5.1alpha, an assertion failure in slapd can occur in the issuerAndThisUpdateCheck function via a crafted packet, resulting in a denial of service (daemon exit) via a short timestamp. This is related to schema_init.c and checkTime.",
  "id": "BIT-openldap-2021-27212",
  "modified": "2026-01-08T18:07:34.629Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:00:07.978Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9454"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/3539fc33212b528c56b716584f2c2994af7c30b0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/9badb73425a67768c09bcaed1a9c26c684af6c30"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00035.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210319-0005/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4860"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27212"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0"
}


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