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[DSA785] DSA-785-1 libpam-ldap

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-785-1 libpam-ldap

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

It has been discovered that libpam-ldap, the Pluggable Authentication
Module permiting LDAP interfaces, ignores the result of an attempt to
authenticate against an LDAP server that does not set an optional data
field.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 178-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 178-1sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libpam-ldap package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-785
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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