CVE-2012-1164

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via an LDAP search query with attrsOnly set to true, which causes empty attributes to be returned.

Affected products

openldap: through 2.4.29; 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, 2.4.11 (+17)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0899.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
http://secunia.com/advisories/48372
http://secunia.com/advisories/49607
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:130
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7143
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52404
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0899.html

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