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Debian DLA-972-1 : openldap security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 100576
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
It was discovered that there was a double-free vulnerability in the 'openldap' LDAP server.A user with access to search the directory could crash slapd by issuing a search requesting a 'Paged Results' value set to zero.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in openldap version 2.4.31-2+deb7u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your openldap packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/06/msg00003.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 100576
File Name: debian_DLA-972.nasl
Version: 3.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 6/2/2017
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4
Temporal Score: 3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libldap-2.4-2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libldap-2.4-2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libldap2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slapd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slapd-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slapd-smbk5pwd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ldap-utils
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-9287