Important: 389-ds-base

Issue Overview:

It was found that 389-ds-base did not properly handle long search filters with characters needing escapes, possibly leading to buffer overflows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus resulting in denial of service.(CVE-2018-1089)

Affected Packages:

389-ds-base

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.i686  
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    389-ds-base-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    389-ds-base-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.x86_64  
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.7.5-21.56.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1089

Mitre: CVE-2018-1089