High
389-ds-base — security advisory
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The dereference control plugin does not check for allocation failure before using a BER structure, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the LDAP server when the system is under memory pressure.
- Products
- 389-ds-base
- Affected versions
- 2.3.1+dfsg1-1, 2.3.1+dfsg1-1+deb12u1, 2.3.4+dfsg1-1, 2.3.4+dfsg1-1.1, 2.4.4+dfsg1-1, 2.4.4+dfsg1-3, 2.4.5+dfsg1-1, 3.0.2+dfsg1-1, 3.1.1+dfsg1-1, 3.1.1+dfsg1-2, 3.1.1+dfsg1-3, 3.1.2+dfsg1-1, 3.1.2+dfsg1-1+deb13u1, 3.1.2+vendor1-1, 3.1.2+vendor1-2, 3.3.0-1, 3.3.0-2, 3.3.1-1, 3.3.1-3
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-11788
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The dereference control plugin does not check for allocation failure before using a BER structure, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the LDAP server when the system is under memory pressure.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-11788
389-ds-base
Fixed versions: Not specified
389-ds-base
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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