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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12243: Uncontrolled Recursion

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12243: Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/28/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/16/2020
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

In filter.c in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.50, LDAP search filters with nested boolean expressions can result in denial of service (daemon crash).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openldap

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