CVE-2021-3480

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    CVE-2021-3480

    Published: 20 May 2021Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MXMOMPTZTGOVFOZUUNXHOVCAYIPST74W/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GVQCDRQRFHXVR3Z3FQYM3UMC7QZUDDRJ/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944640

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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