Stack-based Buffer Overflow in nss-pam-ldapd Allows for Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution

CVE-2013-0288 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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