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Bug 669043

Summary: OpenLDAP slapd(8) with ppolicy crash while replace-deleting userPassword attribute
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: openldapAssignee: Jan Vcelak <jvcelak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.5CC: jplans, jvcelak, jwest, mmatsuya, omoris, ovasik, pm-eus, rvokal, tsmetana
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 2.3.43-12.el5_6.4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
When running the slapd service with the ppolicy overlay enabled, an attempt to delete the "userPassword" attribute could cause the service to terminate unexpectedly, leaving the database in a corrupted state. With this update, an upstream patch has been applied to address this issue, and deleting the "userPassword" attribute no longer causes the slapd service to crash.
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Last Closed: 2011-01-25 22:49:59 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 665951    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-01-12 14:53:46 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #665951 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.6 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-01-18 23:38:14 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
When running the slapd service with the ppolicy overlay enabled, an attempt to delete the "userPassword" attribute could cause the service to terminate unexpectedly, leaving the database in a corrupted state. With this update, an upstream patch has been applied to address this issue, and deleting the "userPassword" attribute no longer causes the slapd service to crash.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 22:49:59 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0178.html