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ubuntu-cve-2015-0283

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-03-30 14:59

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0283	REPORT
	https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0283	REPORT

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    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "slapi-nis",
            "binary_version": "0.55-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "slapi-nis-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "0.55-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "slapi-nis",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/slapi-nis@0.55-1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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            }
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      ],
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0283",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:43Z",
  "published": "2015-03-30T14:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0283"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
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    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2015-0283"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:08Z"
}

CVE-2015-0283 (GCVE-0-2015-0283)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:03

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/slapi-nis.git/c…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73377	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Date Public

2015-03-26 00:00

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ubuntu-cve-2015-0283

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-0283 (GCVE-0-2015-0283)

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