Issued:
2011-11-28
Updated:
2011-11-28

RHBA-2011:1482 - openldap bug fix update

Synopsis

openldap bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated openldap packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The openldap packages contain configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP. OpenLDAP is an open source suite of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services over the Internet, similar to the way Domain Name System (DNS) information is propagated over the Internet.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • When running an OpenLDAP server with the LDAP Sync replication engine (syncrepl) enabled and a large amount of data was replicated, the memory was used extensively. Due to high memory usage, the standalone LDAP daemon (slapd) was sometimes not able to allocate enough free memory using its default memory allocation mechanism. As a consequence, slapd fell back on the secondary memory allocation mechanism but without freeing the memory properly, and thus causing memory leaks. With this update, the slpad daemon frees the memory correctly in such a scenario, and memory leaks no longer occur. (BZ#750538)

All users of openldap are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc64.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.s390.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.src.rpm
  • openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc64.rpm
  • openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.ppc64.rpm
  • openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm
  • openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.ppc.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.s390x.rpm
  • compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.ia64.rpm
  • openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.s390.rpm
  • openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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