RHSA-2022:5239 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for 389-ds-base 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

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: sending crafted message could result in DoS (CVE-2022-0918)
• 389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database (CVE-2022-0996)

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):

• Log the Auto Member invalid regex rules in the LDAP errors log. (BZ#2014768)

Enhancement(s):

• RFE - Provide an option to abort an Auto Member rebuild task. (BZ#2018153)

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

After installing this update, the 389 server service will be restarted automatically.

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 - 2014768 - Log the Auto Member invalid regex rules in the LDAP errors log. [rhel-7.9.z]
• BZ - 2018153 - RFE - Provide an option to abort an Auto Member rebuild task.
• BZ - 2055815 - CVE-2022-0918 389-ds-base: sending crafted message could result in DoS
• BZ - 2064769 - CVE-2022-0996 389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database

CVEs

• CVE-2022-0918
• CVE-2022-0996

References

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