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CVE-2018-14624
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Red Hat, Inc. 389-ds-base: through 1.3.7.10; from 1.3.8.0 through 1.3.8.8; from 1.4.0.0 through 1.4.0.16
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.5, 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
References
- 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
- 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
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