Oracle Linux 4 : openldap (ELSA-2010-0543)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68065

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0543 :

Updated openldap packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools.

An uninitialized pointer use flaw was discovered in the way the slapd daemon handled modify relative distinguished name (modrdn) requests.
An authenticated user with privileges to perform modrdn operations could use this flaw to crash the slapd daemon via specially crafted modrdn requests. (CVE-2010-0211)

Red Hat would like to thank CERT-FI for responsibly reporting the CVE-2010-0211 flaw, who credit Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas Salomaki for the discovery of the issue.

A flaw was found in the way OpenLDAP handled NUL characters in the CommonName field of X.509 certificates. An attacker able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority could trick applications using OpenLDAP libraries into accepting it by mistake, allowing the attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2009-3767)

Users of OpenLDAP should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing this update, the OpenLDAP daemons will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected openldap packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2010-July/001543.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68065

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0543.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:compat-openldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-clients, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-servers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:openldap-servers-sql, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3767, CVE-2010-0211

BID: 36844, 41770

CWE: 310

RHSA: 2010:0543