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

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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 discovered that the 389 Directory Server did not properly handle certain Get Effective Rights (GER) search queries when the attribute list, which is a part of the query, included several names using the '@' character. An attacker able to submit search queries to the 389 Directory Server could cause it to crash. (CVE-2013-4485)

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.

Each release has bug fixes in addition to the CVE 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.

Fixes Ticket 47599 - Reduce lock scope in retro changelog plug-in - previous fix missing defition of retrocl_cn_lock

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.

Updated plugin API Here is where you give an explanation of your update. There are additional fixes on top of the CVE Fixes Ticket 47599 - Reduce lock scope in retro changelog plug-in - previous fix missing defition of retrocl_cn_lock

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 discovered that the 389 Directory Server did not properly handle certain Get Effective Rights (GER) search queries when the attribute list, which is a part of the query, included several names using the '@' character. An attacker able to submit search queries to the 389 Directory Server could cause it to crash. (CVE-2013-4485)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1752 advisory.

    - Resolves: bug 1024977 CVE-2013-4485 389-ds-base: DoS due to improper handling of ger attr searches
    - Resolves: Bug 1000632 - CVE-2013-4283 389-ds-base: ns-slapd crash due to bogus DN

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.

It was discovered that the 389 Directory Server did not properly handle certain Get Effective Rights (GER) search queries when the attribute list, which is a part of the query, included several names using the '@' character. An attacker able to submit search queries to the 389 Directory Server could cause it to crash.

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

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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 discovered that the Red Hat Directory Server did not properly handle certain Get Effective Rights (GER) search queries when the attribute list, which is a part of the query, included several names using the '@' character. An attacker able to submit search queries to the Red Hat Directory Server could cause it to crash. (CVE-2013-4485)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
79175	CentOS 6 : 389-ds-base (CESA-2013:1752)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/12/2014	1/4/2021	medium
71019	RHEL 6 : 389-ds-base (RHSA-2013:1752)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/21/2013	1/14/2021	medium
71956	Fedora 18 : 389-ds-base-1.3.0.9-1.fc18 (2013-21875)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/15/2014	1/11/2021	medium
71183	Fedora 19 : 389-ds-base-1.3.1.16-1.fc19 (2013-22012)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	12/4/2013	1/11/2021	medium
71087	Fedora 20 : 389-ds-base-1.3.2.7-1.fc20 (2013-22139)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	11/26/2013	1/11/2021	medium
71191	Scientific Linux Security Update : 389-ds-base on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131121)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	12/4/2013	1/14/2021	medium
71114	Oracle Linux 6 : 389-ds-base (ELSA-2013-1752)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/27/2013	10/22/2024	medium
71395	Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2013-255)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	12/14/2013	4/18/2018	medium
78980	RHEL 5 : redhat-ds-base (RHSA-2013:1753)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/8/2014	1/14/2021	medium

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