RHSA-2026:5512 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the redhat-ds:11 module is now available for Red Hat Directory Server 11.5 E4S for RHEL 8.

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 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 Directory Server - 4 years of updates 11 for RHEL 8.6 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