Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openldap2, openldap2.2 vulnerability (USN-305-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27880

Synopsis

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

Description

When processing overly long host names in OpenLDAP's slurpd replication server, a buffer overflow caused slurpd to crash.

If an attacker manages to inject a specially crafted host name into slurpd, this might also be exploited to execute arbitrary code with slurpd's privileges; however, since slurpd is usually set up to replicate only trusted machines, this should not be exploitable in normal cases.

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://usn.ubuntu.com/305-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27880

File Name: ubuntu_USN-305-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

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: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

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:libldap2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldap2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslapd2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slapd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2754

USN: 305-1