Red Hat Directory Server 8 and 389 Directory Server, when debugging is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive replicated metadata by searching the directory.

Updated redhat-ds-base packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Directory Server 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The redhat-ds-base packages provide Red Hat Directory Server, which is an LDAPv3 compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.

It was found that when replication was enabled for each attribute in Red Hat Directory Server, which is the default configuration, the server returned replicated metadata when the directory was searched while debugging was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2014-3562)

This issue was discovered by Ludwig Krispenz of Red Hat.

All Red Hat Directory Server 8 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the dirsrv service will be restarted automatically.

It was found that when replication was enabled for each attribute in 389 Directory Server, which is the default configuration, the server returned replicated metadata when the directory was searched while debugging was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information.

389-ds-base-1.3.2.22 release - a security bug fix

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was found that when replication was enabled for each attribute in 389 Directory Server, which is the default configuration, the server returned replicated metadata when the directory was searched while debugging was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2014-3562)

After installing this update, the 389 server service will be restarted automatically.

Updated 389-ds-base packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The 389 Directory Server is an LDAPv3 compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.

It was found that when replication was enabled for each attribute in 389 Directory Server, which is the default configuration, the server returned replicated metadata when the directory was searched while debugging was enabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2014-3562)

This issue was discovered by Ludwig Krispenz of Red Hat.

All 389-ds-base users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
After installing this update, the 389 server service will be restarted automatically.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1031 advisory.

    [1.2.11.15-34]
    - Release 1.2.11.15-34
    - Resolves: #1123861       EMBARGOED CVE-2014-3562 unauthenticated information disclosure [rhel-6.5.z] (DS 616, BZ 1123477)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79114	RHEL 5 : redhat-ds-base (RHSA-2014:1032)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
78339	Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2014-396)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
77228	Fedora 20 : 389-ds-base-1.3.2.22-1.fc20 (2014-9391)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
77084	Scientific Linux Security Update : 389-ds-base on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20140807)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
77080	RHEL 6 / 7 : 389-ds-base (RHSA-2014:1031)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
77076	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : 389-ds-base (ELSA-2014-1031)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
77059	CentOS 6 / 7 : 389-ds-base (CESA-2014:1031)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2014-3562

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