RHSA-2024:4997 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the redhat-ds:12 module is now available for Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 for RHEL 9.4.

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 Fixes:

• 389-ds-base: Unauthenticated user can trigger a DoS by sending a specific extended search request (CVE-2024-6237) (2294858)
• 389-ds-base: Malformed userPassword hash may cause Denial of Service (CVE-2024-5953) (DIRSRV-137)

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.

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 12 are advised to install these updated packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Directory Server 12 x86_64
• Red Hat Directory Server - Extended Update Support 12 for RHEL 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Directory Server - Extended Update Support 12 for RHEL 9.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2292104 - CVE-2024-5953 389-ds-base: Malformed userPassword hash may cause Denial of Service
• BZ - 2293579 - CVE-2024-6237 389-ds-base: unauthenticated user can trigger a DoS by sending a specific extended search request

CVEs

• CVE-2024-5953
• CVE-2024-6237

References

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