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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenLDAP vulnerabilities (USN-2622-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83863

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain search queries that returned empty attributes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to assert, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-1164)

Michael Vishchers discovered that OpenLDAP improperly counted references when the rwm overlay was used. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-4449)

It was discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain empty attribute lists in search requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2015-1545).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2622-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83863

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2622-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2015

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1545

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4449

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd-smbk5pwd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldap-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap-2.4-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap2-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1164, CVE-2013-4449, CVE-2015-1545

BID: 52404, 63190, 72519

USN: 2622-1