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Gentoo: 200808-09 Low: OpenLDAP Denial of Service Attack

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Unprivileged remote attackers may leverage vulnerabilities in OpenLDAP, leading to Denial of Service incidents. Advisory has been issued for Gentoo users.
A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200808-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: August 08, 2008 Bugs: #230269 ID: 200808-09

Synopsis ======= A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service.
Background ========= OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-nds/openldap < 2.3.43 >= 2.3.43
========== Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER encoded packets in the "ber_get_next()" function in libraries/liblber/io.c.
Impact ===...

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