CVE-2019-3883

High

Description

In 389-ds-base up to version 1.4.1.2, requests are handled by workers threads. Each sockets will be waited by the worker for at most 'ioblocktimeout' seconds. However this timeout applies only for un-encrypted requests. Connections using SSL/TLS are not taking this timeout into account during reads, and may hang longer.An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly create hanging LDAP requests to hang all the workers, resulting in a Denial of Service.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductFedoraproject 389 Directory Server
PublishedApr 17, 2019
First seenApr 17, 2019
Weakness typeCWE-772CWE-772

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
fedoraproject 389_directory_serverv ≤ 1.4.1.2—
debian debian_linux8.0—
redhat enterprise_linux6.0—

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