CVE-2007-5794 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-5794 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 339031 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:003, published Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:31:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:06 2025