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openldap — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25709

A flaw was found in OpenLDAP. This flaw allows an attacker who can send a malicious packet to be processed by OpenLDAP’s slapd server, to trigger an assertion failure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Products
openldap
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.4.56+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-25709
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25709

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 May 2021, 12:15 UTC

A flaw was found in OpenLDAP. This flaw allows an attacker who can send a malicious packet to be processed by OpenLDAP’s slapd server, to trigger an assertion failure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25709

openldap

Fixed versions: 2.4.56+dfsg-1

openldap

Fixed versions: 2.4.56+dfsg-1

openldap

Fixed versions: 2.4.56+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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