CVE-2017-9287

medium

Published 2017-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

VIR risk

6.5

Description

servers/slapd/back-mdb/search.c in OpenLDAP through 2.4.44 is prone to a double free vulnerability. A user with access to search the directory can crash slapd by issuing a search including the Paged Results control with a page size of 0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`2.4.45-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.4.44+dfsg-5`
debian	8.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	7.4	affected
rhel	7.5	affected
rhel	7.6	affected
rhel	7.7	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openldap	openldap	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.44"}`
mcafee	policy_auditor	`{"endExcluding":"6.5.1"}`	`6.5.1`
oracle	blockchain_platform	`{"endExcluding":"21.1.2"}`	`21.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-415

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