Denial of service in 389-ds-base - CVE-2018-14638

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15562

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14638

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to unspecified flaw. A remote attacker can terminate persistent search connections and cause the process ns-slapd to crash in delete_passwdPolicy function.

389-ds-base
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power

Update to version 1.3.8.4-13.

389-ds-base - update to 1.3.8.4-13

• https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/c/78fc627accacfa4061ce48977e22301f81ea8d73

• Amazon Linux AMI update for 389-ds-base
• Red Hat update for 389-ds-base