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Gentoo: GLSA-200606-17 Normal: OpenLDAP Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2006
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202102-30 describes a critical vulnerability in the OpenSSH service that could lead to privilege escalation.
The OpenLDAP replication server slurpd contains a buffer overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenLDAP: Buffer overflow Date: June 15, 2006 Bugs: #134010 ID: 200606-17

Synopsis ======= The OpenLDAP replication server slurpd contains a buffer overflow that could result in arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools. It includes slapd (the standalone LDAP server), slurpd (the standalone LDAP replication server), various LDAP libraries, utilities and example clients.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-nsd/openldap < 2.3.22 >= 2.3.22
========== slurpd contains a bu...

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