Moderate: redhat-ds:11.3 security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for the redhat-ds:11 module is now available for Red Hat Directory Server 11.3 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(es):

• 389-ds-base: sync_repl NULL pointer dereference in sync_create_state_control() (CVE-2021-3514)
• 389-ds-base: double-free of the virtual attribute context in persistent search (CVE-2021-4091)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• ACIs are being evaluated against the Replication Manager account in a replication context. (BZ#2022086)
• A connection can be erroneously flagged as replication conn during evaluation of an aci with ip bind rule (BZ#2022090)
• DB corruption "_entryrdn_insert_key - Same DN (dn: nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff,<SUFFIX>) is already in the entryrdn file" (BZ#2022686)
• CLI needs option to set nsslapd-state (BZ#2040794)

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 11 are advised to install 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 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1952907 - CVE-2021-3514 389-ds-base: sync_repl NULL pointer dereference in sync_create_state_control()
• BZ - 2022086 - ACIs are being evaluated against the Replication Manager account in a replication context.
• BZ - 2022090 - A connection can be erroneously flagged as replication conn during evaluation of an aci with ip bind rule
• BZ - 2022686 - DB corruption "_entryrdn_insert_key - Same DN (dn: nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff,<SUFFIX>) is already in the entryrdn file"
• BZ - 2030307 - CVE-2021-4091 389-ds-base: double free of the virtual attribute context in persistent search
• BZ - 2040794 - CLI needs option to set nsslapd-state

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3514
• CVE-2021-4091

References

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