Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package 389-ds-base (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Sept 2018
- disclosed28 Sept 2018
Introduced: 28 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-14648 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream 389-ds-base package and not the 389-ds-base package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A specially crafted search query could lead to excessive CPU consumption in the do_search() function. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-14648
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00015.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14648
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3127
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3507