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GLSA-200507-13 : pam_ldap and nss_ldap: Plain text authentication leak

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19200

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200507-13 (pam_ldap and nss_ldap: Plain text authentication leak)

 Rob Holland of the Gentoo Security Audit Team discovered that pam_ldap and nss_ldap fail to use TLS for referred connections if they are referred to a master after connecting to a slave, regardless of the 'ssl start_tls' ldap.conf setting.
 Impact :

 An attacker could sniff passwords or other sensitive information as the communication is not encrypted.
 Workaround :

 pam_ldap and nss_ldap can be set to force the use of SSL instead of TLS.

Solution

All pam_ldap users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-auth/pam_ldap-178-r1' All nss_ldap users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose sys-auth/nss_ldap

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200507-13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19200

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200507-13.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/14/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nss_ldap, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pam_ldap

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2069

BID: 14126

GLSA: 200507-13