RHSA-2026:26459 - Security Advisory

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 Important. 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: 389-ds-base: unbounded LDAP controls count in get_ldapmessage_controls_ext() causes CPU and heap amplification (remote DoS) (CVE-2026-9064)

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 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2480093 - CVE-2026-9064 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: unbounded LDAP controls count in get_ldapmessage_controls_ext() causes CPU and heap amplification (remote DoS)
• RHEL-163375 - WARN - keys2idl - received NULL idl from index_read_ext_allids

CVEs

• CVE-2026-9064

References

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