CVE-2013-0288

Upstream information

CVE-2013-0288 at MITRE

Description

nss-pam-ldapd before 0.7.18 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by performing a name lookup on an application with a large number of open file descriptors, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow related to incorrect use of the FD_SET macro.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 804682 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2013:0522-1, published Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:04:49 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0522-2, published Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:04:41 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0524-1, published Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:04:49 +0100 (CET)

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:17:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Feb 13 11:40:30 2023