CVE-2007-5794

Impact

Race condition in nss_ldap, when used in applications that are linked against the pthread library and fork after a call to nss_ldap, might send user data to the wrong process because of improper handling of the LDAP connection. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for Dovecot with the wrong mailboxes being returned, but other applications might also be affected.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453868
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198390
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27670
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27768
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27839
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28061
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28838
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29083
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30352
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31227
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31524
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-33.xml
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-332.htm
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0255
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1430
• http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-April/006859.html
• http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-March/006345.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:049
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0389.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0715.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487985/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26452
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020088
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154314