ALAS2-2021-1646


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1646
Advisory Release Date: 2021-06-16 20:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-06-22 21:36 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in slapi-nis. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3480)


Affected Packages:

slapi-nis


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update slapi-nis to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    slapi-nis-0.56.5-4.amzn2.aarch64
    slapi-nis-debuginfo-0.56.5-4.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    slapi-nis-0.56.5-4.amzn2.i686
    slapi-nis-debuginfo-0.56.5-4.amzn2.i686

src:
    slapi-nis-0.56.5-4.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    slapi-nis-0.56.5-4.amzn2.x86_64
    slapi-nis-debuginfo-0.56.5-4.amzn2.x86_64