CVE-2007-5794 (GCVE-0-2007-5794)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-13 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:46
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198390 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020088 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-07… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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2007-11-05 00:00
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:10:22Z",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2007-5794",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2007-5794.json",
      "version": "4"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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