CVE-2015-0283

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.

Affected products

RedHat Slapi-Nis: through 0.54.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit/?id=6573f91c95f7a353ad3bdf2fe95b0c15932aa097

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