Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-20277: Security patch for libldb (ALAS-2021-1494)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/24/2021
04/24/2021
04/22/2021
10/14/2022
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)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-libldb
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