1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-965-1

USN-965-1: OpenLDAP vulnerabilities

Publication date

9 August 2010

Overview

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Details

Using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite, Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas
Salomäki discovered that the slap_modrdn2mods function in modrdn.c
in OpenLDAP does not check the return value from a call to the
smr_normalize function. A remote attacker could use specially crafted
modrdn requests to crash the slapd daemon or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2010-0211)

Using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite, Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas
Salomäki discovered that OpenLDAP does not properly handle empty
RDN strings. A remote attacker could use specially crafted modrdn
requests to crash the slapd daemon. (CVE-2010-0212)

In the default installation under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and later, attackers
would be isolated by the OpenLDAP AppArmor profile for the slapd daemon.

Using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite, Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas
Salomäki discovered that the slap_modrdn2mods function in modrdn.c
in OpenLDAP does not check the return value from a call to the
smr_normalize function. A remote attacker could use specially crafted
modrdn requests to crash the slapd daemon or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2010-0211)

Using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite, Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas
Salomäki discovered that OpenLDAP does not properly handle empty
RDN strings. A remote attacker could use specially crafted modrdn
requests to crash the slapd daemon. (CVE-2010-0212)

In the default installation under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and later, attackers
would be isolated by the OpenLDAP AppArmor profile for the slapd daemon.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic slapd –  2.4.18-0ubuntu1.1
9.04 jaunty slapd –  2.4.15-1ubuntu3.1
8.04 hardy slapd –  2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.4
6.06 dapper slapd –  2.2.26-5ubuntu2.10
10.04 lucid slapd –  2.4.21-0ubuntu5.2

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