Issued at: 2026-09-09
Updated at: 2026-09-10
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:64784, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Critical: 389-ds-base security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Description
389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 (LDAPv3) compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.
Security Fix(es):
* 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: heap buffer overflow via SASL wrapped-record length lower-bound underflow in sasl_io_start_packet() (CVE-2026-18355)
* 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pre-authentication NULL pointer dereference via paged results and USE_ONE_BACKEND control in op_shared_search (CVE-2026-18453)
* 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: SASL PLAIN authentication allows privilege escalation to Directory Manager via stale identity in Cyrus SASL auxiliary property (CVE-2026-18922)
* 389-ds-base: 389-ds: anonymous LDAP client can defeat SELFDN ACI bind-rule checks via empty bind DN (CVE-2026-76560)
* 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: CVE-2026-11610 incomplete fix may introduce a connection-stall DoS (CVE-2026-78701)
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
* lib389: set nsDS5ReplicaBindDNGroup before ensure_agreement() [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-244467)
* fix breaks replication total init when nsDS5ReplicaBindDNGroup is set after agreement creation [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-248766)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.