Medium: 389-ds-base

Issue Overview:

Password brute-force possible for locked account due to different return codes:
A flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled authentication attempts against locked accounts. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to continue password brute-forcing attacks against LDAP accounts, thereby bypassing the protection offered by the directory server’s password lockout policy. (CVE-2017-7551)

Affected Packages:

389-ds-base

Issue Correction:
Run yum update 389-ds-base to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    389-ds-base-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-1.3.6.1-19.51.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-7551

Mitre: CVE-2017-7551