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USN-1266-1: OpenLDAP vulnerability

17 November 2011

An OpenLDAP server could potentially be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.

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Packages

Details

It was discovered that slapd contained an off-by-one error. An
authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this by sending a
crafted crafted LDIF entry containing an empty postalAddress.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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