CVE-2007-5794

Description

Race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that are linked against the pthread library and fork after a call to nss_ldap, might send user data to the wrong process because of improper handling of the LDAP connection. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for Dovecot with the wrong mailboxes being returned, but other applications might also be affected.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10625

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1913

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38505

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367461

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154314

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020088

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26452

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487985/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0715.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0389.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:049

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-March/006345.html

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-April/006859.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1430

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0255

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-332.htm

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-33.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/31524

http://secunia.com/advisories/31227

http://secunia.com/advisories/30352

http://secunia.com/advisories/29083

http://secunia.com/advisories/28838

http://secunia.com/advisories/28061

http://secunia.com/advisories/27839

http://secunia.com/advisories/27768

http://secunia.com/advisories/27670

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198390

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453868

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3