Howard Chu wrote:
Given that the deref overlay isn't even documented and is
probably used by
only a handful of OpenLDAP developers I don't believe it even merited a CVE
record.
Hmm, not sure. Arthur de Jong implemented support for this control in
nss-pam-ldapd a year ago [1] and IIRC also discussed it on the
openldap-technical mailing list.
Ciao, Michael.
[1]
http://arthurdejong.org/git/nss-pam-ldapd/tree/ChangeLog
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2014-01-05 Arthur de Jong <arthur(a)arthurdejong.org>
* [c6c317e] : Implement deref control handling
This uses the LDAP_CONTROL_X_DEREF control as described in
draft-masarati-ldap-deref-00 to request the LDAP server to
dereference group member attribute values to uid attribute values.
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