{"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":"2026-02-10T04:40:55Z","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":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2","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":"libldap2-dev"},{"binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2","binary_name":"slapd"},{"binary_version":"2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2","binary_name":"slapd-smbk5pwd"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2014-9713","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-6908","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2742-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}