TITLE:
OpenLDAP slurpd Status File Handling Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20126

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20126/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Unknown

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenLDAP 2.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5943/
OpenLDAP 2.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5319/
OpenLDAP 2.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1831/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness with unknown impact has been reported in OpenLDAP.

The weakness is caused due to a boundary error in slurpd within the
handling of the status file. This can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long hostname read from the
status file.

The weakness has been reported in version 2.3.21. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.22 or later.
http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slurpd/st.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22&hideattic=1&sortbydate=0&f=h

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