RHEL 7 : 389-ds-base (RHSA-2022:5239)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162578

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5239 advisory.

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: sending crafted message could result in DoS (CVE-2022-0918)

* 389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database (CVE-2022-0996)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Log the Auto Member invalid regex rules in the LDAP errors log. (BZ#2014768)

Enhancement(s):

* RFE - Provide an option to abort an Auto Member rebuild task. (BZ#2018153)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f89a5eb6

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5239

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014768

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018153

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2055815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064769

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162578

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5239.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/28/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-snmp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0918, CVE-2022-0996

CWE: 287, 770

RHSA: 2022:5239