Description
The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html ↗