CVE-2018-14624 Information

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in 389-ds-base through versions 1.3.7.10 1.3.8.8 and 1.4.0.16. 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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00033.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2757 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14624 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00037.html https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49937

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5