openSUSE 10 Security Update : openldap2 (openldap2-5509)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34440

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security problem in the liblber client library of openldap that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program termination) via crafted ASN.1 BER datagrams, which triggers an assertion error. (CVE-2008-2952) Additionally a bug was fixed in ldap_free_connection which could result in client crashes when the server closed a connection while an operation is active.

Solution

Update the affected openldap2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34440

File Name: suse_openldap2-5509.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, 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:novell:opensuse:openldap2-back-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2-client-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2-back-meta, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:openldap2-devel-32bit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2952

CWE: 399

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