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<glsa id="200808-09">
  <title>OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A flaw in OpenLDAP allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a
    Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openldap</product>
  <announced>2008-08-08</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-08-08</revised>
  <bug>230269</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-nds/openldap" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.3.43</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.43</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight
    Directory Access Protocol.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER
    encoded packets in the "ber_get_next()" function in
    libraries/liblber/io.c.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted ASN.1
    BER encoded packet which will trigger the error and cause an
    "assert()", terminating the "slapd" daemon.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenLDAP users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-nds/openldap-2.3.43"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2952">CVE-2008-2952</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-08-05T20:53:02Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-08-05T20:54:49Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>
