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TITLE:
Debian update for ldap-account-manager

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25157

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25157/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2007-05-08

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
http://secunia.com/product/5307/

DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for ldap-account-manager. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform actions with escalated privileges and by malicious users to
conduct script insertion attacks.

1) An error in LDAP Account Manager can be exploited by malicious
people to conduct script insertion attacks.

For more information:
SA24687

2) An error in lamdaemon.pl can potentially be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with escalated privileges by specifying a modified
PATH variable to a  malicious "rm" program.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian 3.1 (oldstable) --

Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386,
ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldap-account-manager/ldap-account-manager_0.4.9-2sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 629 e35751aee6f3d2658caa7f7e605b7c69
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldap-account-manager/ldap-account-manager_0.4.9-2sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12059 4c853e7304c431d7da29e8988bafff7a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldap-account-manager/ldap-account-manager_0.4.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 423988 6478d91210dbf13c9d49b7aa1a971be1

Architecture independent packages:
 
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ldap-account-manager/ldap-account-manager_0.4.9-2sarge1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   408360 47e7959aedbc6f62a3c266708d8208a8

CHANGELOG:
2007-05-08: Updated "Description" section.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1287

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24687:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24687/

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