Bug#1036995: openldap: CVE-2023-2953

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Ryan,

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 04:34:31PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the report. If I've understood the issue correctly (DoS/crash
> if malloc fails), it does not look too urgent.

Correct, agreed.

> Although the fixes look safe enough, I think we could wait until after
> bookworm is released, and fix this in unstable first and in a point release
> later. Does that sound OK to you?

Yes I do agree. The issue can be fixed after the bookworm release for
unstable and trixie, and for bookworm fixing it in the first point
release is absolutely fine. We do not need a DSA here. The same holds
for bullseye.

Thank you for the swift reply back!

Regards,
Salvatore