vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-20277): ldb vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 24, 2021
Added
Mar 25, 2021
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libldb1ubuntu-upgrade-libldb1ubuntu-upgrade-libldb2
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