Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4860-1 openldap -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 20 Feb 2021
- Affected Packages:
- openldap
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-27212.
- More information:
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A vulnerability in the Certificate List Exact Assertion validation was discovered in OpenLDAP, a free implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An unauthenticated remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (slapd daemon crash) via specially crafted packets.
For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u6.
We recommend that you upgrade your openldap packages.
For the detailed security status of openldap please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openldap