CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5794

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-11-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• nss ldap nss ldap

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References