RHBA-2016:1298 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated 389-ds-base packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, when a simple paged results slot in a connection was discarded due to an error such as "SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED", the discarded slot was not cleaned up properly. Subsequent searches which reused this slot then returned 0 instead of the actual search result. With this update, discarded simple paged results slots are cleaned up correctly, and searches return correct results even with reused slots. (BZ#1335107)
• When 389 Directory Server starts, all present DES-encrypted passwords are automatically converted to AES. DES passwords were previously being detected using an internal unindexed search, which was too slow for very large user databases, and could potentially cause the startup process to time out and prevent Directory Server from starting. With this update, only the configuration suffix "cn=config" is checked for DES passwords, and a new slapi task "des2aes" is now available which can be run after starting the server to convert DES passwords to AES on a specific database if needed. The server therefore starts up regardless of the database size. (BZ#1344293)
• 389-ds-base versions 1.3.2 and later are compliant with the schema definition described in RFC 4512, which may not allow the schema to be used by the older versions. To ease migration from earlier versions, the "nsslapd-enquote-sup-oc" was introduced. However, this parameter contained a bug which prevented handling old schema styles such as 'SYNTAX oid' in single quotes. This update fixes that bug, and you can now use single quotes with older schema styles.

Additionally, this update introduces the "LDAP_SCHEMA_ALLOW_QUOTES" environment variable which adds support for older style schema in the schema directory. To enable this functionality, set LDAP_SCHEMA_ALLOW_QUOTED="on" in the /etc/sysconfig/dirsrv-INSTANCE configuration file. (BZ#1335423)

Users of 389-ds-base are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. After installing this update, the 389 server service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1335107 - Paged results search returns the blank list of entries
• BZ - 1335423 - heap corruption at schema replication.
• BZ - 1344293 - At startup DES to AES password conversion causes timeout in start script

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal