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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200611-25
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability
      Date: November 28, 2006
      Bugs: #154349
        ID: 200611-25

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Synopsis
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A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a
Denial of Service.

Background
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OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related applications and development tools.

Affected packages
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     Package           /   Vulnerable   /                   Unaffected
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  1  net-nds/openldap      < 2.3.27-r3                    >= 2.3.27-r3
                                                         *>= 2.2.28-r5
                                                         *>= 2.1.30-r8

Description
===========

Evgeny Legerov has discovered that the truncation of an incoming
authcid longer than 255 characters and ending with a space as the 255th
character will lead to an improperly computed name length. This will
trigger an assert in the libldap code.

Impact
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By sending a BIND request with a specially crafted authcid parameter to
an OpenLDAP service, a remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All OpenLDAP users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "net-nds/openldap"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2006-5779
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5779

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-25.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5