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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openldap2 (SUSE-SU-2017:1567-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100803

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openldap2 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2017-9287: A double free vulnerability in the mdb backend during search with page size 0 was fixed (bsc#1041764) Non security bugs fixed :

 - Let OpenLDAP read system-wide certificates by default and don't hide the error if the user-specified CA location cannot be read. (bsc#1009470)

 - Fix an uninitialised variable that causes startup failure (bsc#1037396)

 - Fix an issue with transaction management that can cause server crash (bsc#972331)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-962=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-962=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-962=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-962=1

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2017-962=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009470

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037396

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1041764

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972331

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9287/

http://www.nessus.org/u?34ace256

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100803

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1567-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2017

Updated: 12/16/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldap-2_4-2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openldap2-back-meta-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9287