CVE-2015-0283

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    CVE-2015-0283

    Published: 30 Mar 2015Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377, https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High