[SECURITY] [DSA 1517-1] New ldapscripts packages fix information disclosure

Debian Security Advisory DSA-1517-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
March 15, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : ldapscripts
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5373
Debian Bug : 445582

Don Armstrong discovered that ldapscripts, a suite of tools to manipulate
user accounts in LDAP, sends the password as a command line argument when
calling LDAP programs, which may allow a local attacker to read this password
from the process listing.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
1.4-2etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain an ldapscripts package.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version
1.7.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ldapscripts package.

Upgrade instructions

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldapscripts/ldapscripts_1.4.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 18812 3e063297a5188922803a451cdbf7dd61
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldapscripts/ldapscripts_1.4-2etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 8429 4d4fd01f12940bf2272cf9b2a27e34c5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldapscripts/ldapscripts_1.4-2etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 883 dabe3144f01910f1f055a2a6d9b63148

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldapscripts/ldapscripts_1.4-2etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28482 52a069bdb720fb9d9897f96dbc150c8a

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;