Fedora 15 : openldap-2.4.24-2.fc15 (2011-3612)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53516

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Three security issues were fixed during the rebase!

Changes not covered by bugs :

- new: system resource limiting for slapd using ulimit

- fix: possible NULL pointer dereference in NSS implementation OpenLDAP package was rebased to 2.4.24.

Extension of API :

- libldap adds: ldap_destroy ldap_dup ldap_sasl_interactive_bind

- libldif adds: ldif_put_wrap ldif_sput_wrap

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

Solution

Update the affected openldap package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680466

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680472

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680975

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb893d2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53516

File Name: fedora_2011-3612.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openldap

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1024, CVE-2011-1025, CVE-2011-1081

BID: 46363, 46831

FEDORA: 2011-3612