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Denial of service is more reliably observed when heap debugging is enabled (for example AddressSanitizer or MALLOC_CHECK_=3), or depending on heap layout and subsequent memory allocator activity. For this reason Red Hat rates availability impact as Low (A:L) rather than High. There is no configuration switch to disable DN normalization for client-supplied DNs. The vulnerable code path is present in all currently supported 389-ds-base versions that ship the quoted-RDN parsing logic in dn.c.
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Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:30:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in Directory Server (389-ds-base). When a DN contains a legacy-quoted value, the server won't close the heap allocation allowing another call to refer to the same memory pointer causing a denial of service or an arbitrary memory write operation. | |
| Title | 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: heap-buffer-overflow in rdn_av_swap on quoted multivalued rdn | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat directory Server Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-1220 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:directory_server:11 cpe:/a:redhat:directory_server:12 cpe:/a:redhat:directory_server:13 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat directory Server Redhat enterprise Linux |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-22T12:51:43.263Z
Reserved: 2026-07-22T12:11:52.389Z
Link: CVE-2026-16560
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CWE-1220
Insufficient Granularity of Access Control