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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36224: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-36224: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/25/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an invalid pointer free and slapd crash in the saslAuthzTo processing, resulting in denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openldap

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