Fedora 21: freeipa Security Update
Summary
IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (machine,
user, virtual machines, groups, authentication credentials), Policy
(configuration settings, access control information) and Audit (events,
logs, analysis thereof).
Update Information:
CVE-2015-1827: It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for a list of groups for a user that belongs to a large number of groups would cause a Directory Server to crash.
CVE-2015-0283: It was discovered that the slapi-nis Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for information about a group with many members, or a request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups, would cause a Directory Server to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time.
These issues were discovered by Sumit Bose of Red Hat.
Change Log
* Thu Mar 26 2015 Alexander Bokovoy
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1195729 - CVE-2015-0283 slapi-nis: infinite loop in getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729 [ 2 ] Bug #1205200 - CVE-2015-1827 ipa: memory corruption when using get_user_grouplist() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update freeipa' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .