CVE-2019-3883

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red Hat389-ds-baseaffects up to 1.4.1.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-772: CWE-772

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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