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SUSE: 2016:0224-1 Critical: openldap2 Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2016
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Rectifies serious vulnerabilities in openldap2 for SUSE, tackling denial of service and inadequate encryption concerns.
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Summary

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. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical important openldap2 SUSE Linux Enterprise encryption patch

References

#937766 #945582 #955210

Cross- CVE-2015-4000 CVE-2015-6908

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0224-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical important openldap2 SUSE Linux Enterprise encryption patch

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