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Unscored USN-2742-1 2 CVEs

openldap vulnerabilities

Published Sep 16, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Denis Andzakovic discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain BER
data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-6908)

Dietrich Clauss discovered that the OpenLDAP package incorrectly shipped
with a potentially unsafe default access control configuration. Depending
on how the database is configure, this may allow users to impersonate
others by modifying attributes such as their Unix user and group numbers.
(CVE-2014-9713)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS openldap 2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —

    The default slapd configuration in the Debian openldap package 2.4.23-3 through 2.4.39-1.1 allows remote authenticated …

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-6908 Public exploit EPSS 19%

    The ber_get_next function in libraries/liblber/io.c in OpenLDAP 2.4.42 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a d…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9713
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6908