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CentOS 6 : 389-ds-base (CESA-2018:0515)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108342

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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.

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: remote Denial of Service (DoS) via search filters in SetUnicodeStringFromUTF_8 in collate.c (CVE-2018-1054)

* 389-ds-base: Authentication bypass due to lack of size check in slapi_ct_memcmp function in ch_malloc.c (CVE-2017-15135)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The CVE-2017-15135 issue was discovered by Martin Poole (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected 389-ds-base packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb3f37d5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108342

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-0515.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2018

Updated: 12/31/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1054

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:389-ds-base-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:389-ds-base, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:389-ds-base-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15135, CVE-2018-1054

RHSA: 2018:0515