Issued:

2012-09-21

Updated:

2012-09-21

RHBA-2012:1303 - perl-LDAP bug fix update

Synopsis

perl-LDAP bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The perl-LDAP package provide a collection of modules that implements a LDAP services API for Perl programs. The module may be used to search directories or perform maintenance functions such as adding, deleting, or modifying entries.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, errors in LDAP communication occurred when the sent data was too large. Consequently, user could not send data bigger than 15,000 bytes over SSL. With this update, backported upstream patches have been provided, which modify the syswrite() call to use smaller chunks of data passed to the IO::Socket::SSL module, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#858699)

All users of perl-LDAP 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• perl-LDAP-0.33-4.el5_8.src.rpm
• perl-LDAP-0.33-4.el5_8.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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