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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : openldap vulnerabilities (USN-551-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 29215

Synopsis

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

Description

Thomas Sesselmann discovered that the OpenLDAP slapd server did not properly handle certain modify requests. A remote attacker could send malicious modify requests to the server and cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2007-5707)

Toby Blake discovered that slapd did not properly terminate an array while running as a proxy-caching server. A remote attacker may be able to send crafted search requests to the server and cause a denial of service. This issue only affects Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10. (CVE-2007-5708).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/551-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 29215

File Name: ubuntu_USN-551-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap-2.3-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap-2.2-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldap-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5707, CVE-2007-5708

BID: 26245

CWE: 399

USN: 551-1