CVE-2013-0288

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2013-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

nss-pam-ldapd before 0.7.18 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by performing a name lookup on an application with a large number of open file descriptors, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow related to incorrect use of the FD_SET macro.

Affected products

Arthurdejong Nss-Pam-Ldapd: through 0.7.17; 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+45)

References

http://arthurdejong.org/git/nss-pam-ldapd/commit/?id=7867b93f9a7c76b96f1571cddc1de0811134bb81
http://arthurdejong.org/git/nss-pam-ldapd/commit/?id=abf03bc54032beeff95b1b8634cc005137e11f32
http://arthurdejong.org/git/nss-pam-ldapd/commit/?id=f266f05f20afe73e89c3946a7bd60bd7c5948e1b
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690319
http://lists.arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd-announce/2013/msg00001.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-February/099438.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00087.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00091.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0590.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52212
http://secunia.com/advisories/52242
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2628

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