Debian: DSA-3868-1: openldap security update

Date30 May 2017

CategoryDebian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

Karsten Heymann discovered that the OpenLDAP directory server can be crashed by performing a paged search with a page size of 0, resulting in denial of service. This vulnerability is limited to the MDB storage backend.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3868-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 30, 2017                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : openldap
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-9287
Debian Bug     : 863563

Karsten Heymann discovered that the OpenLDAP directory server can be
crashed by performing a paged search with a page size of 0, resulting in
denial of service. This vulnerability is limited to the MDB storage
backend.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.40+dfsg-1+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.44+dfsg-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your openldap packages.

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