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openSUSE Leap 42.1 openldap2 Important Security Update for DoS

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
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Addresses critical vulnerabilities in openldap2 for openSUSE, improving overall system robustness and protection.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now avai...

Description

This update fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2015-6908: The ber_get_next function allowed remote attackers to

cause a denial

of service (reachable assertion and application crash) via crafted BER

data, as demonstrated by an attack against slapd. (bsc#945582)

- CVE-2015-4000: Fix weak Diffie-Hellman size vulnerability. (bsc#937766)

It also fixes the following non-security bugs:

- bsc#955210: Unresponsive LDAP host lookups in IPv6 environment

This update adds the following functionality:

- fate#319300: SHA2 password hashing module that can be loaded on-demand.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update important patching openldap2 openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-104=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

compat-libldap-2_3-0-2.3.37-11.1

compat-libldap-2_3-0-debuginfo-2.3.37-11.1

libldap-2_4-2-2.4.41-11.1

libldap-2_4-2-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-meta-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-meta-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-perl-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-perl-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-sql-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-back-sql-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-client-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-client-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-client-debugsource-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-debuginfo-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-debugsource-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-devel-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-devel-static-2.4.41-11.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

libldap-2_4-2-32bit-2.4.41-11.1

libldap-2_4-2-debuginfo-32bit-2.4.41-11.1

openldap2-devel-32bit-2.4.41-11.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

openldap2-doc-2.4.41-11.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4000.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6908.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=937766

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945582

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955210

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0261-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

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Topics Covered

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