Moderate: redhat-ds:11 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for the redhat-ds:11 module is now available for Red Hat Directory Server 11.6 for RHEL 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAPv3-compliant directory server. The suite of packages includes the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, as well as command-line utilities and Web UI packages for server administration.

Security Fix(s):

• RHDS: LDAP browser tries to decode userPassword instead of userCertificate attribute (CVE-2023-1055)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 11 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Directory Server 11.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2168719 - lib389 password policy DN handling is incorrect
• BZ - 2173517 - CVE-2023-1055 RHDS: LDAP browser tries to decode userPassword instead of userCertificate attribute

CVEs

• CVE-2023-1055

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate