CVE-2001-0977

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

slapd in OpenLDAP 1.x before 1.2.12, and 2.x before 2.0.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Basic Encoding Rules (BER) length field.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 2.2
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 7.1, 7.2, 8.0
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: 1.0.1
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Single Network Firewall: 7.2
openldap: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.1.1 (+24)
RedHat Linux: 6.2, 7.0, 7.1

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000417
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-18.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-068
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935800
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-069.php3
http://www.osvdb.org/1905
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3049
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6904
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000417
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-18.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-068

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