Synopsis

Important: 389-ds:1.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the 389-ds:1.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: 389-ds-base (1.4.1.3). (BZ#1712467)

Security Fix(es):

• 389-ds-base: Read permission check bypass via the deref plugin (CVE-2019-14824)
• 389-ds-base: replication and the Retro Changelog plugin store plaintext password by default (CVE-2018-10871)
• 389-ds-base: DoS via hanging secured connections (CVE-2019-3883)
• 389-ds-base: using dscreate in verbose mode results in information disclosure (CVE-2019-10224)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1591480 - CVE-2018-10871 389-ds-base: replication and the Retro Changelog plugin store plaintext password by default
• BZ - 1654056 - /usr/lib/systemd/system/dirsrv@.service:40: .include directives are deprecated
• BZ - 1654059 - CVE-2019-10224 389-ds-base: using dscreate in verbose mode results in information disclosure [rhel-8]
• BZ - 1677147 - CVE-2019-10224 389-ds-base: using dscreate in verbose mode results in information disclosure
• BZ - 1678517 - ipa role-mod DatabaseError changing cn
• BZ - 1693612 - CVE-2019-3883 389-ds-base: DoS via hanging secured connections
• BZ - 1702024 - Cannot create Directory Server's instances using dscreate
• BZ - 1706224 - Protocol setting is inconsistent in FIPS mode
• BZ - 1712467 - Rebase 389-ds-base on RHEL 8.1
• BZ - 1715675 - Fix potential ipv6 issues
• BZ - 1717540 - Address covscan warnings
• BZ - 1720331 - Log the actual base DN when the search fails with "invalid attribute request".
• BZ - 1725815 - consistency in the replication error codes while setting nsds5replicaid=65535
• BZ - 1729069 - IPA upgrade fails for latest ipa package when setup in multi master mode
• BZ - 1739183 - CleanAllRUV task limit not enforced
• BZ - 1747448 - CVE-2019-14824 389-ds-base: Read permission check bypass via the deref plugin

CVEs

• CVE-2018-10871
• CVE-2019-3883
• CVE-2019-10224
• CVE-2019-14824

References