oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- openldap (slapd): Assertion failure by processing search queries requesting only attributes for particular entry

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:36:00 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- openldap (slapd): Assertion failure
 by processing search queries requesting only attributes for particular entry

On 03/12/2012 11:36 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
>   a denial of service flaw was found in the way the slapd server of the
> OpenLDAP,
> the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol applications and development
> suite,
> processed certain search queries requesting only attributes (no values)
> for a
> particular entry. A remote attacker could issue a specially-crafted LDAP
> search
> query, which once processed by a vulnerable slapd server would lead to
> assertion failure (slapd abort).
> 
> Upstream bug report:
> [1] http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=7143
> 
> Original upstream patch:
> [2]
> http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commit;h=ef2f5263de8802794e528cc2648ecfca369302ae
> 
> 
> Further patches:
> [3]
> http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commit;h=430256fafb85028443d7964a5ab1f4bbf8b2db38
> 
> 
> [4]
> http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commit;h=463c1fa25d45e393dc1f1ea235286f79e872fad0
> 
> 
> References:
> [5] http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
> [6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407941
> [7] https://secunia.com/advisories/48372/
> [8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802514
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE identifier for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> -- 
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

Please use CVE-2012-1164 for this issue.

-- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)

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