Fedora 21 : freeipa-4.1.4-1.fc21 / slapi-nis-0.54.2-1.fc21 (2015-4747)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82612

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

CVE-2015-1827: It was discovered that the IPA extdom Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for a list of groups for a user that belongs to a large number of groups would cause a Directory Server to crash.

CVE-2015-0283: It was discovered that the slapi-nis Directory Server plug-in did not correctly perform memory reallocation when handling user account information. A request for information about a group with many members, or a request for a user that belongs to a large number of groups, would cause a Directory Server to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time.

These issues were discovered by Sumit Bose of Red Hat.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected freeipa and / or slapi-nis packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?962f5770

http://www.nessus.org/u?3bd3216b

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195729

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205200

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82612

File Name: fedora_2015-4747.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeipa, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slapi-nis, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0283, CVE-2015-1827

FEDORA: 2015-4747