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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-5794

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-5794

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/13/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-nss_ldap
  • suse-upgrade-nss_ldap-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-nss_ldap-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-nss_ldap-x86
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

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