Medium: openldap

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in openldap that can cause a null pointer dereference in the ber_memalloc_x() function. (CVE-2023-2953)

Affected Packages:

openldap

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update openldap to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    openldap-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
    openldap-devel-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
    openldap-servers-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
    openldap-servers-sql-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
    openldap-clients-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
    openldap-debuginfo-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    openldap-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
    openldap-devel-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
    openldap-servers-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
    openldap-servers-sql-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
    openldap-clients-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
    openldap-debuginfo-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.i686  
  
src:  
    openldap-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.src  
  
x86_64:  
    openldap-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  
    openldap-devel-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  
    openldap-servers-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  
    openldap-servers-sql-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  
    openldap-clients-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  
    openldap-debuginfo-2.4.44-25.amzn2.0.6.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-2953

Mitre: CVE-2023-2953