__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN phpldapadmin [Debian Security Advisory DSA-790-1] August 30, 2005 17:00 GMT Number P-294 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: There is a vulnerability in phpldapadmin, a web based interface for administering LDAP servers. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge DAMAGE: Allows anybody to access the LDAP server anonymously, even if this is disabled in the configuration with the "disable_anon_bind" statement. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is HIGH. Allows anybody to access the LDAP server ASSESSMENT: anonymously, even if this is disabled in the configuration with the "disable_anon_bind" statement. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-294.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: Debian Security Advisory DSA-790-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-790 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-2654 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-790-1 *****] DSA-790-1 phpldapadmin -- programming error Date Reported: 30 Aug 2005 Affected Packages: phpldapadmin Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 322423. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2005-2654. More information: Alexander Gerasiov discovered that phpldapadmin, a web based interface for administering LDAP servers, allows anybody to access the LDAP server anonymously, even if this is disabled in the configuration with the "disable_anon_bind" statement. The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.5-3sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6c-5. We recommend that you upgrade your phpldapadmin package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5-3sarge2.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5-3sarge2.diff.gz http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5.orig.tar.gz Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_0.9.5-3sarge2_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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