CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : openldap (CESA-2015:1840)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86515

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated openldap packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols used to access and maintain distributed directory information services over an IP network. The openldap package contains configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP.

A flaw was found in the way the OpenLDAP server daemon (slapd) parsed certain Basic Encoding Rules (BER) data. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash slapd via a specially crafted packet.
(CVE-2015-6908)

All openldap users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected openldap packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86515

File Name: centos_RHSA-2015-1840.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6908

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap-servers-sql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-openldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap-clients, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap-servers, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openldap-servers-overlays

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6908

RHSA: 2015:1840

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