High severity · published Jan 2, 2020
CVE-2014-8182
An off-by-one error leading to a crash was discovered in openldap 2.4 when processing DNS SRV messages
7.5
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An off-by-one error leading to a crash was discovered in openldap 2.4 when processing DNS SRV messages. If slapd was configured to use the dnssrv backend, an attacker could crash the service with crafted DNS responses.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openldap · Openldap
2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8182
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8182
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-8182
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8182
Exploit
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-8182
Patch
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8182
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