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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60569
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1517-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ldapscripts' package(s) announced via the DSA-1517-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ldapscripts' package(s) announced via the DSA-1517-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

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

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

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

We recommend that you upgrade your ldapscripts package.

Affected Software/OS:
'ldapscripts' package(s) on Debian 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5373
BugTraq ID: 25982
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25982
Debian Security Information: DSA-1517 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1517
http://secunia.com/advisories/27111
http://secunia.com/advisories/29395
XForce ISS Database: ldapscripts-commandline-info-disclosure(37029)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37029
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