VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1164

low
Published 2012-06-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
2.6
VIR risk
2.6

Description

slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via an LDAP search query with attrsOnly set to true, which causes empty attributes to be returned.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1164

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7143

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/49607

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://secunia.com/advisories/48372

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.31-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.31-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.31-1
debian debiansidfixed2.4.31-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.31-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openldapopenldap{"endIncluding":"2.4.29"}
openldapopenldap2.4.6
openldapopenldap2.4.7
openldapopenldap2.4.8
openldapopenldap2.4.9
openldapopenldap2.4.10
openldapopenldap2.4.11
openldapopenldap2.4.12
openldapopenldap2.4.13
openldapopenldap2.4.14
openldapopenldap2.4.15
openldapopenldap2.4.16
openldapopenldap2.4.17
openldapopenldap2.4.18
openldapopenldap2.4.19
openldapopenldap2.4.20
openldapopenldap2.4.21
openldapopenldap2.4.22
openldapopenldap2.4.23
openldapopenldap2.4.24
openldapopenldap2.4.25
openldapopenldap2.4.26
openldapopenldap2.4.27
openldapopenldap2.4.28

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.