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Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password storage plugin in 389 Directory Server extracts the iteration count from stored password hashes without an upper bound check. An attacker with Directory Manager privileges can plant a crafted {PBKDF2_SHA256} hash with extreme iteration counts (e.g. 0x7FFFFFFF). Any subsequent LDAP BIND as the poisoned account triggers unbounded CPU consumption, hanging a worker thread for hours and enabling persistent denial of service. Both the C plugin (pbkdf2_pwd.c) and Rust plugin (pwdchan/lib.rs) are affected. Distinct from CVE-2024-5953 which added hash length check but not iteration cap. Introduced in 389-ds-base 1.3.6 (commit 542287ce7, Ticket 397). PoC confirmed on Fedora 42 production binary.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle. Changing version to 45.
Fixed in https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/293b88c91
FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f (389-ds-base-3.2.3-2.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f
FEDORA-2026-c1e25a4642 has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-c1e25a4642` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-c1e25a4642 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-0b8bc362b1 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-0b8bc362b1` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0b8bc362b1 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-c1e25a4642 (389-ds-base-3.3.1-3.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2026-0b8bc362b1 (389-ds-base-3.1.5-4.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2026-b16c9cbc0f (389-ds-base-3.2.3-5.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.