Debian 4.0 DSA-1541-1 Moderate: OpenLDAP Denial Of Service

debian

April 8, 2008

Thomas Sesselmann discovered that slapd could be crashed by a malformed modify requests.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Debian vulnerability advisory openldap remote issue

Summary

Thomas Sesselmann discovered that slapd could be crashed by a
malformed modify requests.

CVE-2007-5708

Toby Blade discovered that incorrect memory handling in slapo-pcache
could lead to denial of service through crafted search requests.

CVE-2007-6698

It was discovered that a programming error in the interface to the
BDB storage backend could lead to denial of service through
crafted modify requests.

CVE-2008-0658

It was discovered that a programming error in the interface to the
BDB storage backend could lead to denial of service through
crafted modrdn requests.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.30-5+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.7-6.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openldap2.3 packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the refe...