CVE-2007-5794

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

Nss Ldap: all versions

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453868
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198390
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27670
http://secunia.com/advisories/27768
http://secunia.com/advisories/27839
http://secunia.com/advisories/28061
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838
http://secunia.com/advisories/29083
http://secunia.com/advisories/30352
http://secunia.com/advisories/31227
http://secunia.com/advisories/31524

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