Synopsis

Moderate: 389-ds:1.4 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 Moderate. 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.

Security Fix(es):

• 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN (CVE-2020-35518)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• dscreate would not always set the correct hostname for the self-signed certificate database (BZ#1912481)
• Indexing a heavily nested database could fail and it would corrupt the database (BZ#1936461)

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 - 1905565 - CVE-2020-35518 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN
• BZ - 1908705 - CVE-2020-35518 389-ds:1.4/389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN [rhel-8.3.0.z]
• BZ - 1912481 - Server-Cert.crt created using dscreate has Subject:CN =localhost instead of hostname. [rhel-8.3.0.z]
• BZ - 1936461 - A failed re-indexing leaves the database in broken state. [rhel-8.3.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2020-35518

References