Alma Linux: CVE-2021-20277: Important: libldb security update (ALSA-2021-1197)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
05/12/2021
05/05/2022
05/04/2022
05/04/2022
Description
A flaw was found in Samba's libldb. Multiple, consecutive leading spaces in an LDAP attribute can lead to an out-of-bounds memory write, leading to a crash of the LDAP server process handling the request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Solution(s)
- alma-upgrade-ldb-tools
- alma-upgrade-libldb
- alma-upgrade-libldb-devel
- alma-upgrade-python3-ldb
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