CVE-2010-0212
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 5.2%EU EUVD
OpenLDAP 2.4.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, which is not properly handled by the smr_normalize function and triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the IA5StringNormalize function in schema_init.c, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 5.2% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0243)
- Published
- July 28, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0243 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openldap / openldap
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40639(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40687(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42787
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=6570(Exploit)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41770(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024221
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1849(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1858(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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