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TITLE:
nss_ldap Race Condition Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27670

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27670/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
nss_ldap 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5324/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in nss_ldap, which can be
exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data.

The security issue is caused due to the library improperly handling
calls made from applications, which are linked against the pthreads
library and fork after the call to an nss_ldap function. This can be
exploited to return wrong data to a process via the shared LDAP
connection.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 259.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 259.
http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap.tgz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported as a Dovecot issue by Josh Burley.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-March/006345.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367461

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