Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1074-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: 389-ds:1.4 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1074-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1074
Issue date: 2024-03-05
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-1062
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Summary:

An update for the 389-ds:1.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended 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: a heap overflow leading to denail-of-servce while writing a value larger than 256 chars (in log_entry_attr) (CVE-2024-1062)

Bug Fix(es):

• dtablesize being set to soft maxfiledescriptor limit causing massive slowdown in large enviroments. [rhel-8.6.0.z] (JIRA:RHEL-15025)

• Paged search impacts performance [rhel-8.6.0.z] (JIRA:RHEL-15030)

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:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2024-1062

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261879
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15025
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15030