USN-2742-1

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    USN-2742-1

    Published: 16 Sept 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: openldap vulnerabilities

    Details: Denis Andzakovic discovered that OpenLDAP incorrectly handled certain BER data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenLDAP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-6908) Dietrich Clauss discovered that the OpenLDAP package incorrectly shipped with a potentially unsafe default access control configuration. Depending on how the database is configure, this may allow users to impersonate others by modifying attributes such as their Unix user and group numbers. (CVE-2014-9713)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2742-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9713, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6908

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openldap

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+nmu2ubuntu8.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.2

    Affected versions

    2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu3
    2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu4
    2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu5
    2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8
    2.4.31-1+nmu2ubuntu8.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High