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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : openldap2 (SUSE-SU-2016:0090-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87909

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update fixes the following security issue :

 - CVE-2015-6908. Passing a crafted packet to the function ber_get_next(), an attacker may cause a remote denial of service, crashing the OpenLDAP server (bsc#945582).

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY :

zypper in -t patch secsp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-openldap2-20151222-12317=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945582

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6908/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a5e32d8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87909

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0090-1.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:compat-libldap-2_3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6908