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CVE-2015-0283
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:redhat:slapi-nis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377