vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-27212: Reachable Assertion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 14, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In OpenLDAP through 2.4.57 and 2.5.x through 2.5.1alpha, an assertion failure in slapd can occur in the issuerAndThisUpdateCheck function via a crafted packet, resulting in a denial of service (daemon exit) via a short timestamp. This is related to schema_init.c and checkTime.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openldap
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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