SB2018051115 - Denial of service in 389-ds-base
Published: May 11, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018051115
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) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2611)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to improper handling of long search filters with characters that need to be escaped. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) request, trigger buffer overflow and cause the ns-slapd process to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.