Resource exhaustion in 389-ds-base - CVE-2018-14648

Vulnerability identifier: #VU16059

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-2018-14648

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive CPU consumption in the do_search() function. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted search queries to trigger resource exhaustion and denial of service.

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.

389-ds-base - update to 1.3.8.4

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648

• Denial of service in 389-ds-base
• Amazon Linux AMI update for 389-ds-base
• Red Hat update for 389-ds-base
• Red Hat update for 389-ds-base
• Red Hat update for 389-ds-base