RHSA-2026:5196 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the 389-ds:1.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

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: 389-ds-base: Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow (CVE-2025-14905)

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 - AUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2423624 - CVE-2025-14905 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2025-14905

References

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