Moderate: 389-ds-base security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: 389-ds-base (2.1.3). (BZ#2061801)

Security Fix(es):

• 389-ds-base: sending crafted message could result in DoS (CVE-2022-0918)
• 389-ds-base: SIGSEGV in sync_repl (CVE-2022-2850)
• 389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database (CVE-2022-0996)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from 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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1872451 - [RFE] 389ds: run as non-root
• BZ - 2052527 - RFE - Provide an option to abort an Auto Member rebuild task.
• BZ - 2055815 - CVE-2022-0918 389-ds-base: sending crafted message could result in DoS
• BZ - 2057056 - Import may break the replication because changelog starting csn may not be created
• BZ - 2057063 - Add support for recursively deleting subentries
• BZ - 2061801 - Rebase 389-ds-base in RHEL 9.1
• BZ - 2064769 - CVE-2022-0996 389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database
• BZ - 2100337 - dsconf backend export userroot fails ldap.DECODING_ERROR
• BZ - 2100572 - Versions for RHDS 9.1 do not match in dirsrv logs and output from rpm -qa
• BZ - 2115348 - memory leak with filter optimizer
• BZ - 2118691 - CVE-2022-2850 389-ds-base: SIGSEGV in sync_repl

CVEs

• CVE-2022-0918
• CVE-2022-0996
• CVE-2022-2850

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index