CVE-2015-1827
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The get_user_grouplist function in the extdom plug-in in FreeIPA before 4.1.4 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a group list request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| fedora | 22 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeipa | freeipa | {"endIncluding":"4.1.3"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73376
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4908
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1827
CWEs
CWE-19
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.