National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5708

Overview

slapo-pcache (overlays/pcache.c) in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.39, when running as a proxy-caching server, allocates memory using a malloc variant instead of calloc, which prevents an array from being initialized properly and might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via unknown vectors that prevent the array from being null terminated.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (11/01/2007)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of OpenLDAP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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External Source: BID

Name: 26245

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26245

External Source: MLIST

Name: [openldap-announce] 20071026 OpenLDAP 2.3.39 available

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-announce/200710/msg00001.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27424

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27424

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3645

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3645

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-551-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-551-1

External Source: BID

Name: 26245

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26245

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2007-741

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00460.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=5163

Hyperlink:http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=5163

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:024

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:058

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:058

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1541

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1541

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200803-28

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-28.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29682

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29682

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29461

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29461

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29225

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29225

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27868

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27868

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27756

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27756

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27683

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27683