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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1554-1 389-ds-base -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Oct 2018

Affected Packages:

389-ds-base

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-14648.

More information:

It was discovered that 389-ds-base (the 389 Directory Server) is vulnerable to search queries with malformed values in the do_search() function (servers/slapd/search.c). Attackers could leverage this vulnerability by sending crafted queries in a loop to cause DoS.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.3.5-4+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your 389-ds-base packages.

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