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USN-5992-1: ldb vulnerability

3 April 2023

ldb could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Releases

Packages

  • ldb - LDAP-like embedded database

Details

Demi Marie Obenour discovered that ldb, when used with Samba, incorrectly
handled certain confidential attribute values. A remote authenticated
attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain certain sensitive
information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using ldb,
such as Samba, to make all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-5993-1: libwbclient-dev, libpam-winbind, samba, winbind, samba-libs, libsmbclient, samba-dsdb-modules, samba-common-bin, ldb-tools, ctdb, libldb2, samba-dev, samba-common, libnss-winbind, samba-testsuite, python3-samba, libwbclient0, libsmbclient-dev, python3-ldb-dev, smbclient, libldb-dev, python3-ldb, registry-tools, samba-vfs-modules