{"id":"USN-2742-1","summary":"openldap vulnerabilities","details":"Denis Andzakovic discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain BER\ndata. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-6908)\n\nDietrich Clauss discovered that the OpenLDAP package incorrectly shipped\nwith a potentially unsafe default access control configuration. Depending\non how the database is configure, this may allow users to impersonate\nothers by modifying attributes such as their Unix user and group numbers.\n(CVE-2014-9713)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:16:31.487396Z","published":"2015-09-16T17:22:12Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9713","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6908"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-9713","CVE-2015-6908","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9713","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6908"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2742-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9713"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6908"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"openldap","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/openldap@2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2"}]}],"versions":["2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu3","2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu4","2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu5","2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8","2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"ldap-utils","binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2"},{"binary_name":"libldap-2.4-2","binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2"},{"binary_name":"slapd","binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2"},{"binary_name":"slapd-smbk5pwd","binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2014-9713"},{"id":"CVE-2015-6908","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2742-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}