CVE-2018-10850 Race condition in 389-ds-base

What is CVE-2018-10850?

CVE-2018-10850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

389-ds-base before versions 1.4.0.10, 1.3.8.3 is vulnerable to a race condition in the way 389-ds-base handles persistent search, resulting in a crash if the server is under load. An anonymous attacker could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10850?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject 389 Directory Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10850?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-10850 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10850 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10850, GHSA-x8cw-gcmf-hx8h, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10850.