Red Hat: 2010:0542-01: openldap: Moderate Advisory
Summary
OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol) applications and development tools.
Multiple flaws were discovered in the way the slapd daemon handled modify
relative distinguished name (modrdn) requests. An authenticated user with
privileges to perform modrdn operations could use these flaws to crash the
slapd daemon via specially-crafted modrdn requests. (CVE-2010-0211,
CVE-2010-0212)
Red Hat would like to thank CERT-FI for responsibly reporting these flaws,
who credit Ilkka Mattila and Tuomas Salom
Summary
Solution
References
Package List
Topic
Updated openldap packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64
Bugs Fixed