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CVE-2021-3480

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Published: May 20, 2021Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected (3)

Slapi Nis Project
1 product
Slapi Nis
Fedoraproject
1 product
Fedora
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Slapi Nis
Before 0.56.7
Configuration B
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Fedoraproject
Fedora
Version 33
Fedora
Version 34

Related CWEs

CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (6)

Source: secalert@redhat.com
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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