Important: 389-ds-base security update

Synopsis

Important: 389-ds-base security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

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: Insufficient fix for CVE-2018-14648 Denial of Service in RHEL-7.5 (CVE-2019-10171)
  

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.

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.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1722081 - CVE-2019-10171 389-ds-base: Insufficient fix for CVE-2018-14648 denial of service in RHEL-7.5

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10171

References

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