Bug 1626079 – CVE-2018-14638 389-ds-base: Crash in delete_passwdPolicy when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly

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Bug 1626079 - (CVE-2018-14638) CVE-2018-14638 389-ds-base: Crash in delete_passwdPolicy when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly

Summary:	CVE-2018-14638 389-ds-base: Crash in delete_passwdPolicy when persistent sear...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2018-14638

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1624420 1637870 1623949 1628677
Blocks:	1626081
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Reported:	2018-09-06 10:16 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-10-10 05:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	389-ds-base 1.4.0.17
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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.
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Last Closed:	2018-09-27 07:15:02 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2757	None	None	None	2018-09-25 15:06 EDT

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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 10:16:39 EDT

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 10:16:13 EDT

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

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2018-09-14 10:39:36 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: Viktor Ashirov (Red Hat)

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-25 15:06:01 EDT

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 04:58:41 EDT

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

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1637870]

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