diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 00b2783dc4b1d235f5c418ffef55fe7129a2c461..2b60d23df8d6cc4e7d0d65c1d018bcd2ffa0120e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.18 Engineering
 	Fixed slapd certificate parsing (ITS#6241)
 	Fixed slapd dncachesize behavior to unlimited by default (ITS#6222)
 	Fixed slapd incorrectly applying writetimeout when not set (ITS#6220)
+	Fixed slapd with duplicate empty lines for olcDbConfig (ITS#6240)
 	Fixed slapd server URL matching (ITS#5942)
 	Fixed slapd subordinate needs a suffix (ITS#6216)
 	Fixed slapd tools to properly close database (ITS#6214)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/modify.c b/servers/slapd/modify.c
index 2710ffe79969d1491d9aec60b0311fed60495063..e4f4ff4cd14656b218191a7979527f258b659a22 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/modify.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/modify.c
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ slap_sort_vals(
 #define	SWAP(a,b,tmp)	tmp=(a);(a)=(b);(b)=tmp
 #define	COMP(a,b)	match=0; rc = ordered_value_match( &match, \
 						ad, mr, SLAP_MR_EQUALITY \
-								| SLAP_MR_VALUE_OF_ATTRIBUTE_SYNTAX \
+								| SLAP_MR_VALUE_OF_ASSERTION_SYNTAX \
 								| SLAP_MR_ASSERTED_VALUE_NORMALIZED_MATCH \
 								| SLAP_MR_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_NORMALIZED_MATCH, \
 								&(a), &(b), text );