A flaw was found in OpenLDAP in versions before 2.4.56. This flaw allows an attacker who sends a malicious packet processed by OpenLDAP to force a failed assertion in csnNormalize23(). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899678 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/ab3915154e69920d480205b4bf5ccb2b391a0a1f#a2feb6ed0257c21c6672793ee2f94eaadc10c72c Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899678 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/ab3915154e69920d480205b4bf5ccb2b391a0a1f#a2feb6ed0257c21c6672793ee2f94eaadc10c72c Patch, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · openldap, redhat, debianNVD modified 2026-10-14 10:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 9
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_core_services:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 15
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899678 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/ab3915154e69920d480205b4bf5ccb2b391a0a1f#a2feb6ed0257c21c6672793ee2f94eaadc10c72c Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4792 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899678 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/ab3915154e69920d480205b4bf5ccb2b391a0a1f#a2feb6ed0257c21c6672793ee2f94eaadc10c72c Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4792 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html