| Description: | The remote host is missing an update to openldap announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:144.
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the way the OpenLDAP slapd daemon processed certain network messages. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send a specially crafted request that would crash the slapd daemon (CVE-2008-2952).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected: 2007.1, 2008.0, 2008.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:144
Risk factor : Medium |