SB2016120107 - Denial of service in Fedora 389-ds-base
Published: December 1, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016120107
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds heap memory read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2591)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the uniqueness_entry_to_config() function due to improper NULL termination of an array in certain configurations of the uiduniq.c source code file. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request, trigger out-of-bounds heap memory read in the uiduniq.c source code file and cause the service to crash..
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.