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Debian: DSA-4884-1 Moderate: Ldb Heap Corruption and Null Dereference

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2021
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-4999-1 discusses various vulnerabilities in ldb concerning LDAP management and buffer overflow issues.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ldb, a LDAP-like embedded database built on top of TDB

Summary

CVE-2020-10730

Andrew Bartlett discovered a NULL pointer dereference and
use-after-free flaw when handling 'ASQ' and 'VLV' LDAP controls and
combinations with the LDAP paged_results feature.

CVE-2020-27840

Douglas Bagnall discovered a heap corruption flaw via crafted
DN strings.

CVE-2021-20277

Douglas Bagnall discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in
handling LDAP attributes that contains multiple consecutive
leading spaces.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:1.5.1+really1.4.6-3+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ldb packages.

For the detailed security status of ldb please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ldb

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: ldb
CVE ID: CVE-2020-10730 CVE-2020-27840 CVE-2021-20277

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