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GLSA-200611-25 : OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 23747

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-200611-25 (OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability)

 Evgeny Legerov has discovered that the truncation of an incoming authcid longer than 255 characters and ending with a space as the 255th character will lead to an improperly computed name length. This will trigger an assert in the libldap code.
 Impact :

 By sending a BIND request with a specially crafted authcid parameter to an OpenLDAP service, a remote attacker can cause the service to crash.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All OpenLDAP users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose 'net-nds/openldap'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200611-25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 23747

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200611-25.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 11/30/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:openldap, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5779

GLSA: 200611-25