CVE-2015-1546

medium

Published 2015-02-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Double free vulnerability in the get_vrFilter function in servers/slapd/filter.c in OpenLDAP 2.4.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted search query with a matched values control.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
macos	10.10.2	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.4.40-4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.4.40-4`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.4.40-4`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.4.40-4`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.4.40-4`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openldap	openldap	`2.4.40`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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