[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#464877: Bug#464877: libldap-2.4-2: ldap_parse_page_control() allocates wrong amount of memory

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

This was already reported upstream as 
<http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=5315> and fixed in HEAD.  It 
will be in the 2.4.8 release.

Update of /repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/libraries/libldap

Modified Files:
	pagectrl.c  1.9 -> 1.10

Log Message:
Corrected memory allocation for cookie (ITS#5315)


--Quanah

--On February 9, 2008 4:47:27 PM +0100 Arthur de Jong <adejong at debian.org> 
wrote:

> Subject: libldap-2.4-2: ldap_parse_page_control() allocates wrong amount
> of memory Package: libldap-2.4-2
> Version: 2.4.7-4
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> I was in the process of trying to get rid of LDAP_DEPRECATED when I ran
> into the following. In the ldap_parse_page_control() function in
> libraries/libldap/pagectrl.c the wrong amount of memory is allocated for
> the returned cookie.
>
> Attached is a patch that should point out and fix the issue. I have
> tested with valgrind to confirm that this is a problem (wth the patch
> applied the errors reported by valgrind disappear).
>
> Btw. Is there any usable documentation available for using the OpenLDAP
> library apart from reading through the source code? I'm trying to get my
> code (nss-ldapd) to work without LDAP_DEPRECATED and it is taking a lot
> of time.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages libldap-2.4-2 depends on:
> ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries ii  libgnutls13           2.0.4-1            the GNU TLS
> library - runtime libr ii  libsasl2-2            2.1.22.dfsg1-17+b1 Cyrus
> SASL - authentication abstra
>
> libldap-2.4-2 recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> -- arthur - adejong at debian.org - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
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