Thomas Sesselmann discovered that the OpenLDAP slapd server did not properly handle certain modify requests. A remote attacker could send malicious modify requests to the server and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5707)
Toby Blake discovered that slapd did not properly terminate an array while running as a proxy-caching server. A remote attacker may be able to send crafted search requests to the server and cause a denial of service. This issue only affects Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10. (CVE-2007-5708)
4 December 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Thomas Sesselmann discovered that the OpenLDAP slapd server did not properly handle certain modify requests. A remote attacker could send malicious modify requests to the server and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-5707)
Toby Blake discovered that slapd did not properly terminate an array while running as a proxy-caching server. A remote attacker may be able to send crafted search requests to the server and cause a denial of service. This issue only affects Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10. (CVE-2007-5708)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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