Bug 1626079 (CVE-2018-14638)

Summary:	CVE-2018-14638 389-ds-base: Crash in delete_passwdPolicy when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	lkrispen, mhonek, mreynolds, nkinder, rmeggins, security-response-team, spichugi, tbordaz, vashirov
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	389-ds-base 1.4.0.17	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A double-free of a password policy structure was found in the way slapd was handling certain errors during persistent search. A unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash Directory Server.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2018-09-27 11:15:02 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1623949, 1624420, 1628677, 1637870
Bug Blocks:	1626081

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 14:16:39 UTC

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. The process ns-slapd crashes in delete_passwdPolicy function when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly leading to remote denial of service.

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623949

Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2018-09-14 14:16:13 UTC

Upstream fix: 
https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/c/78fc627accacfa4061ce48977e22301f81ea8d73

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2018-09-14 14:39:36 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Viktor Ashirov (Red Hat)

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-25 19:06:01 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

Comment 5 Cedric Buissart 2018-10-10 08:58:41 UTC

Created 389-ds-base tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1637870]