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Re: Security alerts on OpenLDAP (CVE-2015-1545 / CVE-2015-1546)



2015-02-24 1:36 GMT+01:00 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>:
> Clément OUDOT wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw today two CVE on OpenLDAP:
>> *
>> http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenLDAP-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-deref-16124
>> *
>> http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenLDAP-use-after-free-via-Matched-Values-16125
>>
>> Don't know if they are reported in some ITS.
>
>
> That's because you're reading 2nd or 3rd-hand reports. Read the actual CVEs
> and you'll see that relevant ITSs already linked.
>
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1545
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1546
>
> Given that the deref overlay isn't even documented and is probably used by
> only a handful of OpenLDAP developers I don't believe it even merited a CVE
> record.


Agreed for the deref CVE, but I confirm that the matched values bug is
present in 2.4.40 official version (and so in LTB packages). I saw
that 2.4.41 was in preparation, any idea of a release date?

Clément.