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Red Hat: RHSA-2018:0515-01 important: 389-ds-base Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
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Red Hat reveals an important upgrade for 389-ds-base in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, successfully addressing potential vulnerabilities.
An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, the 389 server service will be restarted automatically.

Summary

389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 (LDAPv3) compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.
Security Fix(es):
* 389-ds-base: remote Denial of Service (DoS) via search filters in SetUnicodeStringFromUTF_8 in collate.c (CVE-2018-1054)
* 389-ds-base: Authentication bypass due to lack of size check in slapi_ct_memcmp function in ch_malloc.c (CVE-2017-15135)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
The CVE-2017-15135 issue was discovered by Martin Poole (Red Hat).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux authentication bypass 389-ds-base

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15135 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1054 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.src.rpm
x86_64: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-devel-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm 389-ds-base-libs-1.2.11.15-94.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0515-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0515
Issue date: 2018-03-13

Topic

An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat Enterprise Linux authentication bypass 389-ds-base

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1525628 - CVE-2017-15135 389-ds-base: Authentication bypass due to lack of size check in slapi_ct_memcmp function in ch_malloc.c

1537314 - CVE-2018-1054 389-ds-base: remote Denial of Service (DoS) via search filters in SetUnicodeStringFromUTF_8 in collate.c

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