CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-14638

Double Free

Published: Sep 14, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base before version 1.3.8.4-13. The process ns-slapd crashes in delete_passwdPolicy function when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly leading to remote denial of service.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
389_directory_server Fedoraproject * 1.3.8.4 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:1.3.7.5-28.el7_5 *
389-ds-base Ubuntu bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu cosmic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
389-ds-base Ubuntu trusty *
389-ds-base Ubuntu upstream *
389-ds-base Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References