CVE-2020-36230: High severity apple macos vulnerability

Published Jan 25, 2021
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Updated

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading in an assertion failure in slapd in the X.509 DN parsing in decode.c bernextelement, resulting in denial of service.

Other sources

OpenLDAP. This issue was addressed with improved checks.

Credit

CVE-2020-36226, CVE-2020-36229, CVE-2020-36225, CVE-2020-36224, CVE-2020-36223, CVE-2020-36227, CVE-2020-36228, CVE-2020-36221, CVE-2020-36222, CVE-2020-36230, CVE-2020-36226, CVE-2020-36229, CVE-2020-36225, CVE-2020-36224, CVE-2020-36223, CVE-2020-36227, CVE-2020-36228, CVE-2020-36221, CVE-2020-36222, CVE-2020-36230, CVE-2020-36226, CVE-2020-36227, CVE-2020-36223, CVE-2020-36224, CVE-2020-36225, CVE-2020-36221, CVE-2020-36228, CVE-2020-36222, CVE-2020-36230, CVE-2020-36229

Affected Software

27 affected componentsFixes available
debian/openldap
2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u72.4.57+dfsg-3+deb11u12.5.13+dfsg-5
Apple macOS Big Sur<11.4
11.4
Apple Catalina
Apple Mojave
openldap OpenLDAP<2.4.57
Debian Debian Linux=9.0
Debian Debian Linux=10.0
Apple iOS and macOS>=10.14.0<10.14.6
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2019-004
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2019-005
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2019-006
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2019-007
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-001
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-002
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-003
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-004
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-005
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-006
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2020-007
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2021-001
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2021-002
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-security_update_2021-003
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-supplemental_update
Apple iOS and macOS=10.14.6-supplemental_update_2
Apple macOS>=11.1<11.4
Apache Bookkeeper=4.12.1

Remediation

Patch Available

https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/8c1d96ee36ed98b32cd0e28b7069c7b8ea09d793

Event History

Jan 25, 2021
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:43 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:43 AM
Description

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the vulnerability ID for this issue?

The vulnerability ID for this issue is CVE-2020-36230.

2

What is the affected software for this vulnerability?

The affected software includes Apple macOS Big Sur versions up to exclusive 11.4, Apple Mojave, and Apple Catalina.

3

How was this vulnerability addressed?

This vulnerability was addressed with improved checks.

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