CVE-2007-5794 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367461 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38505 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1913 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10625