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slapi-nis — security advisory
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.
- Products
- slapi-nis
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.56.5-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3480
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3480
slapi-nis
Fixed versions: 0.56.5-2
slapi-nis
Fixed versions: 0.56.5-2
Complete source record
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