Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : openldap2.2 vulnerability (USN-858-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42795

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that OpenLDAP did not correctly handle SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.

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 ldap-utils, libldap-2.2-7 and / or slapd packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/858-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42795

File Name: ubuntu_USN-858-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldap-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap-2.2-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3767

BID: 36844

CWE: 310

USN: 858-1