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Bug 134010 - net-nds/openldap OpenLDAP slurpd Status File Handling Weakness (CVE-2006-2754)
Summary: net-nds/openldap OpenLDAP slurpd Status File Handling Weakness (CVE-2006-2754)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.openldap.org/software/rele...
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa] jaervosz
Keywords:
: 130975 135216 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-05-22 02:16 UTC by Dax
Modified: 2007-06-24 23:34 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
gentoomail: Assigned_To+


Attachments
openldap-2.3.24.ebuild.patch with new stuff removed. (openldap-2.3.24.ebuild.patch,5.21 KB, patch)
2006-06-02 11:25 UTC, Tuan Van (RETIRED)
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Description Dax 2006-05-22 02:16:47 UTC
Hi All,

Date:        	19 May 2006
SecWatch ID:       	1014107
Vendor URL:       	http://www.openldap.org/
Original Advisory:       	http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
http://www.openldap...tic=1sortbydate=0f=h

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.


Affected:
OpenLDAP version 2.3.21. Prior versions may also be affected.


Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.3.22 or later, available:
http://www.openldap.org/software/download/


Credits:
Reported by vendor.

rgds
Daxomatic
Comment 1 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-23 02:04:38 UTC
Seems very oscure to me and I don't think (not fully checked though) you can inject arbitrary hostnames in slurpd status file, so it's dependent on DNS and your configuration.

So it looks far from being critical to me.
Comment 2 Dax 2006-05-23 04:41:07 UTC
Hi Lcars
Is the new version ready to be unmasked? If so, could you unmask it for stable?

rgds
Daxomatic
Comment 3 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-23 15:30:15 UTC
The new version has an issue with new-style config directory, mentioned in bug #133898 which upstream already knows about

So really non-easy decision here...

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-23 15:50:08 UTC
http://tinyurl.com/s34lu

This seems to be the patch - could somebody do a revbump of the old-config style version with this?
Comment 5 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-30 11:26:38 UTC
ldap team, please bump with provided patch or comment
Comment 6 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-30 14:06:13 UTC
As .24 was released some hours ago, I bumped right now
Comment 7 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 09:39:51 UTC
Arches please test and mark stable and sorry for the delay.
Comment 8 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 11:32:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Arches please test and mark stable and sorry for the delay.

What version are we supposed to stable? Seems like the unaffected versions are still masked.

# Markus Ullmann <jokey@gentoo.org (21 May 2006)
# OpenLDAP serious config problem, see bug #133898
>=net-nds/openldap-2.3.23

Comment 9 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 12:21:07 UTC
Readjusted the package mask so that all versions below 2.3.24 are masked. 2.3.24 is the candidate for stable
Comment 10 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 13:50:13 UTC
alpha done.
Comment 11 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 14:06:20 UTC
*** Bug 130975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 16:30:16 UTC
If mit-krb5 is used to satisfy the virtual/kerberos use flag dependency for kerberos, openldap will fail to build as mit-krb5 does not provide both kadm5/admin.h or hdb.h headers.
Comment 13 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 17:42:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Readjusted the package mask so that all versions below 2.3.24 are masked.
> 2.3.24 is the candidate for stable

# masking older versions due to security bug #134010 and bug #133898
<net-nds/openldap-2.3.24

Well uh... you've killed all stable openldap, not exactly a good thing, considering that noone besides alpha keyworded the fixed version.
Comment 14 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 17:43:09 UTC
*** Bug 135216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 17:55:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Readjusted the package mask so that all versions below 2.3.24 are masked.
> 2.3.24 is the candidate for stable

Jokey,
Please never ever do that again. You started to cause a world of pain for alot 
of people. We first have the arches test and decide if it can be marked stable.
Then p.masking if needed.

Carlo,
Thanks for reverting that but please next time find the bug which caused 
the breakage and comment on it.
Comment 16 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 21:59:00 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 17 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 05:55:47 UTC
stable on ppc64
Comment 18 Wes 2006-06-02 09:58:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> If mit-krb5 is used to satisfy the virtual/kerberos use flag dependency for
> kerberos, openldap will fail to build as mit-krb5 does not provide both
> kadm5/admin.h or hdb.h headers.
> 

Will/Can it be made to work with mit-krb5 or do I have to switch to heimdal?
Comment 19 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 10:38:19 UTC
a diff berween a last ebuild with the most arch keywork (openldap-2.2.28-r3) and this one, we can see that there are a lot more modules in contrib/ comes with openldap-2.3.24.ebuild . IMHO, it's a bad practice to introduce new "features" in an ebuild requires secutiry stable keyword which causes problem as seen with smbk5pwd module.
Comment 20 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 11:25:38 UTC
Created attachment 88202 [details, diff]
openldap-2.3.24.ebuild.patch with new stuff removed.

dsaschema, smbk5pwd, addrdnvalues are new stuff added in 2.3.24. I propose we remove them for now.

~/cvs/gentoo-x86/net-nds/openldap $ grep -l dsaschema *.ebuild
openldap-2.3.24.ebuild
~/cvs/gentoo-x86/net-nds/openldap $ grep -l smbk5pwd *.ebuild
openldap-2.3.24.ebuild
~/cvs/gentoo-x86/net-nds/openldap $ grep -l addrdnvalues *.ebuild
openldap-2.3.24.ebuild
Comment 21 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 11:48:31 UTC
Okay, a short "what went wrong here" story to clarify things a bit.

First let me say sorry for the wrong package mask. I just had 2.3 branch in mind when setting that mask.

Then in 2.3.21-r1 I started testing the contrib overlays as described in bug #116045 but I decided to let it not hit the tree as I didn't have enough time to test.
After 2.3.23 was out I prepared things to go live as in the meantime I was fine with it. Then the slurpd bug came in and just thought "okay, not that many changes (some overlays) so let it go.

Afterwards at least I do know better now.

Right now I prepare an 2.3.24-r1 ebuild without all the extra overlays that can go stable then (already talked to arches who stabled already to make sure they help here) and the new overlays (with what I learned from now) will go into an -r3 then which should be at best ~ keyworded or just  stay hardmasked for further development.

All in all not the best one would expect, I admit that but now try to make best out of it and get this crap sorted.
Comment 22 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 17:32:12 UTC
Okay, candidate for stable is now 2.3.24-r1
Comment 23 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-02 23:48:38 UTC
-r1 works fine here on ppc with mit-krb5, but r2 still fails. 
Comment 24 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-04 04:12:08 UTC
Stable on hppa
Comment 25 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-04 18:07:01 UTC
amd64 stable.
Comment 26 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-05 16:36:13 UTC
SPARC stable
Comment 27 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-11 13:17:40 UTC
x86 done sorry about the delay
Comment 28 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-11 23:32:16 UTC
stable on ppc64

we are not CC'd...
Comment 29 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-15 09:01:47 UTC
GLSA 200606-17

arm, ia64, mips and s390 don't forget to mark stable to benifit from the GLSA.
Comment 30 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-15 17:33:26 UTC
Arm done
Comment 31 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2006-09-04 22:12:18 UTC
2.3.24 stable on mips.