[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#465875: slapd: CVE-2008-0658 denial of service for authenticated users in the BDB backend

[Nico Golde]

Package: slapd
Version: 2.3.39-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for slapd.

CVE-2008-0658[0]:
| slapd/back-bdb/modrdn.c in the BDB backend for slapd in OpenLDAP
| 2.3.39 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service
| (daemon crash) via a modrdn operation with a NOOP
| (LDAP_X_NO_OPERATION) control, a related issue to CVE-2007-6698.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

You can find a patch for this on:
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slapd/back-bdb/modrdn.c.diff?r1=1.197&r2=1.198&f=h

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0658

Kind regards
Nico

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