Upstream information

CVE-2013-0288 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 804682 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2013:0522-1 openSUSE-SU-2013:0522-2 openSUSE-SU-2013:0524-1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:17:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:05:52 2023