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Red Hat: RHSA-2010:0542-01 Moderate Threat: OpenLDAP Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Balanced advisory from Red Hat regarding openldap security revisions, identified as RHSA-2010:0542-01, outlines vulnerabilities and associated updates.
Updated openldap packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Summary

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools.
Multiple flaws were discovered in the way the slapd daemon handled modify relative distinguished name (modrdn) requests. An authenticated user with privileges to perform modrdn operations could use these flaws to crash the slapd daemon via specially-crafted modrdn requests. (CVE-2010-0211, CVE-2010-0212)
Red Hat would like to thank CERT-FI for responsibly reporting these flaws, who credit Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas Salom

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References

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0542-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0542.html
Issue date: 2010-07-20

Topic

Updated openldap packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

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