A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-28
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Severity: Normal
Title: OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date: March 19, 2008
Bugs: #197446, #209677
ID: 200803-28

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Synopsis
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Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in
OpenLDAP.

Background
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OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-nds/openldap < 2.3.41 >= 2.3.41

Description
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The following errors have been discovered in OpenLDAP:

* Tony Blake discovered an error which exists within the
normalisation of "objectClasses" (CVE-2007-5707).

* Thomas Sesselmann reported that, when running as a proxy-caching
server the "add_filter_attrs()" function in
servers/slapd/overlay/pcache.c does not correctly NULL terminate
"new_attrs" (CVE-2007-5708).

* A double-free bug exists in attrs_free() in the file
servers/slapd/back-bdb/modrdn.c, which was discovered by Jonathan
Clarke (CVE-2008-0658).

Impact
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A remote attacker can cause a Denial of Serivce by sending a malformed
"objectClasses" attribute, and via unknown vectors that prevent the
"new_attrs" array from being NULL terminated, and via a modrdn
operation with a NOOP (LDAP_X_NO_OPERATION) control.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All OpenLDAP users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-nds/openldap-2.3.41"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-5707
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5707
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-5708
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5708
[ 3 ] CVE-2008-0658
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0658

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-28.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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