RHSA-2022:0621 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for openldap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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

OpenLDAP is an open-source suite of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols used to access and maintain distributed directory information services over an IP network.

Security Fix(es):

• openldap: assertion failure in Certificate List syntax validation (CVE-2020-25709)
• openldap: assertion failure in CSN normalization with invalid input (CVE-2020-25710)

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.

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1899675 - CVE-2020-25709 openldap: assertion failure in Certificate List syntax validation
• BZ - 1899678 - CVE-2020-25710 openldap: assertion failure in CSN normalization with invalid input

CVEs

• CVE-2020-25709
• CVE-2020-25710

References

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