Vulnerability in Openldap
CVE-2007-5708
slapo-pcache (overlays/pcache.c) in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.39, when running as a proxy-caching server, allocates memory using a malloc variant instead of calloc, which prevents an array from being initialized properly and might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unknown vectors that prevent the array from being null terminated.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Openldap — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secunia.com/advisories/27683 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29461 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29225 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29682 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software Bugs
- secunia.com/advisories/27756 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-28.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1541 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-5708?
- CVE-2007-5708 is a vulnerability in Openldap, classified under CWE-399. Published 2007-10-30.
- Is CVE-2007-5708 known to be exploited?
- 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.