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TITLE:
Red Hat Directory Server Regular Expression Handler Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30181

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30181/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2008-05-12

SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Directory Server 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/7016/
Red Hat Directory Server 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/18012/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat Directory Server, which
can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the regular
expression handler and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by
supplying an overly long regular expression in an LDAP search.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nathan Kinder

CHANGELOG:
2008-05-12: Added link to RHSA-2008-0268.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0269.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0268.html

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