Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-905
Advisory Release Date: 2017-10-02 16:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-10-02 21:44 Pacific
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.
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