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 ber_next_element, resulting in denial of service.
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"sources": [
{
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36230",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-36230",
"published": "2021-01-26T18:15:57.350Z",
"id": "CVE-2020-36230",
"imported": "2026-07-17T21:17:27.836Z",
"modified": "2026-06-17T03:15:10.073Z",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
}
}
]
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