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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : openldap vulnerability (USN-1266-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56869

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that slapd contained an off-by-one error. An authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this by sending a crafted crafted LDIF entry containing an empty postalAddress.

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 slapd package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1266-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56869

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1266-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4079

BID: 50384

USN: 1266-1