Executive Summary

Summary
Title Updated nss_ldap package fixes race condition allowing user data theft
Informations
Name MDVSA-2008:049 First vendor Publication 2008-02-25
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2008-02-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that use pthread and fork after a call to nss_ldap, does not properly handle the LDAP connection, which might cause nss_ldap to return the wrong user data to the wrong process, giving one user access to data belonging to another user, in some cases.

The updated package hais been patched to prevent this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:049

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions
CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10625
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10625
Title: Race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that are linked against the pthread library and fork after a call to nss_ldap, might send user data to the wrong process because of improper handling of the LDAP connection. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for Dovecot with the wrong mailboxes being returned, but other applications might also be affected.
Description: Race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that are linked against the pthread library and fork after a call to nss_ldap, might send user data to the wrong process because of improper handling of the LDAP connection. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for Dovecot with the wrong mailboxes being returned, but other applications might also be affected.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-5794
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19840
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19840
Title: DSA-1430-1 libnss-ldap - information disclosure
Description: It was reported that a race condition exists in libnss-ldap, an NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service, which could cause denial of service attacks if applications use pthreads.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1430-1
CVE-2007-5794
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): libnss-ldap
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22248
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22248
Title: ELSA-2008:0389: nss_ldap security and bug fix update (Low)
Description: Race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that are linked against the pthread library and fork after a call to nss_ldap, might send user data to the wrong process because of improper handling of the LDAP connection. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for Dovecot with the wrong mailboxes being returned, but other applications might also be affected.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2008:0389-02
CVE-2007-5794
Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): nss_ldap
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for nss_ldap
File : nvt/sles9p5021857.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for nss_ldap MDVSA-2008:049 (nss_ldap)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_049.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for nss_ldap RHSA-2008:0389-02
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0389-02_nss_ldap.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for nss_ldap RHSA-2008:0715-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0715-01_nss_ldap.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200711-33 (nss_ldap)
File : nvt/glsa_200711_33.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1430-1 (libnss-ldap)
File : nvt/deb_1430_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42223 nss_ldap LDAP Connection Race Condition Cross Thread Information Disclosure

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080521_nss_ldap_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080724_nss_ldap_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-049.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-25 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0715.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0389.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-06 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_nss_ldap-4773.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-06 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_nss_ldap-4781.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1430.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200711-33.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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