nss_ldap May Disclose Information on the Wrong User Request
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020088
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1020088
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5794
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 22 2008
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Impact: Disclosure of user information
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in nss_ldap. A remote user may be able to obtain information intended for another LDAP user request.
A remote user may be able to exploit a race condition in nss_ldap in the processing of LDAP connection to cause the service to return
information to the wrong requesting process.
[Editor's note: This was originally reported in March 2005 as pertaining to Dovecot.]
Josh
Burley reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user may be able to obtain information intended for another LDAP user request.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fix.
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Vendor URL: www.padl.com/OSS/nss_ldap.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error, State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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