RHSA-2021:1243 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the redhat-ds:11 module is now available for Red Hat Directory Server 11.2 for RHEL 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

Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAPv3-compliant directory server. The suite of packages includes the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, as well as command-line utilities and Web UI packages for server administration.

Security Fix(es):

• 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN (CVE-2020-35518) (BZ#1905565)

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):

• The UI become unresponsive when an error occured (BZ#1751082)
• The python-lib389 class Accounts displayed an error during delete operations (BZ#1859215)
• The server version number has been added to the UI (BZ#1859288)
• Searches by an unauthorized client can no longer determine if an entry exists or not by the result code (BZ#1925537)
• Changes made on the Server Tuning page in the web console are now correctly reflected (BZ#1927051)
• Adding new schema using dsconf no longer displayes a "values has to be a tuple" error (BZ#1937036)

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 11 are advised to install these updated packages.

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 Directory Server 11 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1751082 - Red Hat Directory Server page gets into an unresponsive loading state forever
• BZ - 1859215 - lib389 Issue: With Accounts/Account module delete fuction is not working
• BZ - 1859288 - add version information for 389-ds-base and RHDS to cli and cockpit
• BZ - 1905565 - CVE-2020-35518 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN
• BZ - 1925537 - RHDS11: “write” permission of ACI changes ns-slapd’s behavior on search operation
• BZ - 1927051 - Changes in the "Tuning & Limits" are saved in LDAP but the Console shows the previous value.
• BZ - 1930272 - CVE-2020-35518 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN [directory_server_11]
• BZ - 1937036 - Error "values has to be a tuple" when creating schema using dsconf [RHDS 11.2]

CVEs

• CVE-2020-35518

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate