Bug 1619450 (CVE-2018-14624)

Summary: CVE-2018-14624 389-ds-base: Server crash through modify command with large DN
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, dmoppert, mhonek, mreynolds, nkinder, rmeggins, security-response-team, sfowler, sparks, spichugi, tbordaz, vashirov
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A vulnerability was discovered in 389-ds-base. The lock controlling the error log was not correctly used when re-opening the log file in log__error_emergency(). An attacker could send a flood of modifications to a very large DN, which would cause slapd to crash.
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Bug Depends On: 1614820, 1623247, 1623721, 1624196, 1624198    
Bug Blocks: 1619452, 1621943    
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patch for crash in vslapd_log_emergency_error none

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-08-20 21:13:03 UTC 
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. The server can be crashed by an anonymous client through a ldapmodify command with a large DN argument potentially causing denial of service.

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614820
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-08-27 00:15:30 UTC 
*** Bug 1621942 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Doran Moppert 2018-08-31 00:40:54 UTC 
Created 389-ds-base tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1624198]
Comment 9 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2018-09-01 20:38:43 UTC 
Hi

Since https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1621942 is not accessible/restricted, could you share more information on this issue? (CVE-2018-14624). Which upstream versions are affected, and is there a fix for the issue?

Regards,
Salvatore
Comment 10 Doran Moppert 2018-09-04 04:30:05 UTC 
Created attachment 1480666 [details]
patch for crash in vslapd_log_emergency_error

Adding patch here since it hasn't made its way upstream yet.
Comment 12 Sam Fowler 2018-09-05 23:10:00 UTC 
Upstream Bug:

https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49937


Upstream Patches:

https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/c/8ff8cb850
https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/c/c5e78249d
https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/c/9f28620d2
Comment 13 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2018-09-07 20:22:42 UTC 
Doran and Sam: thank you
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-25 19:05:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2757 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2757