CERT-FI Advisory on OpenLDAP
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- servers and server applications
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- remote - no user interaction required - no authentication required
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- potential code execution - denial of service
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| Remediation |
- fix provided by vendor
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Details
Two vulnerabilities have been found in OpenLDAP. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially to execute his own code by sending a specially modified command to an affected server. Exploiting the vulnerabilities does not require an authenticated session with the server.
CERT-FI coordinated the remediation effort of the vulnerability
Vulnerability Coordination Information and Acknowledgements
CERT-FI has coordinated the release of these vulnerabilities between the
vulnerability researchers and the affected vendors. The vulnerabilities were found by Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas Salomäki with the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite at the Codenomicon Crash Test Party. CERT-FI would like to thank the researchers and the OpenLDAP project for co-operation in the remediation efforts.
Vendor Information
- OpenLDAP before version 2.4.23
Remediation
Install either the latest version of OpenLDAP (
http://www.openldap.org)
or a fixed version of the software provided by your operating system or application
vendor.
References
Contact Information
CERT-FI Vulnerability Coordination can be contacted as follows:
Email:
vulncoord@ficora.fi
Please
quote the advisory reference [FICORA #383115] in the subject line
Telephone:
+358 9 6966 510
Monday
- Friday 08:00 - 16:15 (EET: UTC+2)
Fax :
+358 9 6966
515
Post:
Vulnerability Coordination
FICORA/CERT-FI
P.O. Box 313
FI-00181 Helsinki
FINLAND
CERT-FI
encourages those who wish to communicate via email to make use
of our PGP key. The key is available at
https://www.cert.fi/en/activities/contact/pgp-keys.htmlThe CERT-FI
vulnerability coordination policy can be viewed at
https://www.cert.fi/en/activities/Vulncoord/vulncoord-policy.html.
Revision History
22 Jul 2010, 09:33 UTC: Published
30 Jul 2010, 08:34 UTC: Added advisory references for Mandriva and Debian
16 Aug 2010, 12:48 UTC: Added JPCERT/CC advisory
15 Nov 2010, 8:38 UTC: Added Apple advisory
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