RHEL 8 : redhat-ds:11.3 (RHSA-2022:0952)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194281

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for redhat-ds:11.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0952 advisory.

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: sync_repl NULL pointer dereference in sync_create_state_control() (CVE-2021-3514)

* 389-ds-base: double-free of the virtual attribute context in persistent search (CVE-2021-4091)

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):

* ACIs are being evaluated against the Replication Manager account in a replication context. (BZ#2022086)

* A connection can be erroneously flagged as replication conn during evaluation of an aci with ip bind rule (BZ#2022090)

* DB corruption _entryrdn_insert_key - Same DN (dn: nsuniqueid=ffffffff-ffffffff-ffffffff- ffffffff,<SUFFIX>) is already in the entryrdn file (BZ#2022686)

* CLI needs option to set nsslapd-state (BZ#2040794)

Users of Red Hat Directory Server 11 are advised to install these updated packages.

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 RHEL redhat-ds:11.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0952.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1952907

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022086

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022090

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022686

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030307

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040794

http://www.nessus.org/u?667944d4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0952

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194281

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0952.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-lib389, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-legacy-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-389-ds, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:389-ds-base-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3514, CVE-2021-4091

CWE: 415, 476

RHSA: 2022:0952