Red Hat Security Advisory: 389-ds-base security update
A moderate severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-5953) affects the 389-ds-base package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. The issue involves a malformed userPassword hash that may cause a denial of service. Red Hat has released an update to address this vulnerability.
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Technical Summary
CVE-2024-5953 is a vulnerability in the 389-ds-base package used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. The flaw involves handling of malformed userPassword hashes, which can lead to a denial of service condition. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as moderate severity and has issued a security advisory (RHSA-2024:6153) with an update to fix the problem. The advisory provides updated packages for multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64, and ppc64le. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, and no known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability may cause denial of service on affected systems due to improper handling of malformed userPassword hashes in 389-ds-base. This could disrupt directory services relying on this package. No information about privilege escalation or data disclosure is indicated.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated 389-ds-base packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:6153 and the referenced update article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). No additional mitigation steps are indicated by Red Hat.
Red Hat Security Advisory: 389-ds-base security update
Description
A moderate severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-5953) affects the 389-ds-base package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. The issue involves a malformed userPassword hash that may cause a denial of service. Red Hat has released an update to address this vulnerability.
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Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-5953 is a vulnerability in the 389-ds-base package used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. The flaw involves handling of malformed userPassword hashes, which can lead to a denial of service condition. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as moderate severity and has issued a security advisory (RHSA-2024:6153) with an update to fix the problem. The advisory provides updated packages for multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64, and ppc64le. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, and no known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability may cause denial of service on affected systems due to improper handling of malformed userPassword hashes in 389-ds-base. This could disrupt directory services relying on this package. No information about privilege escalation or data disclosure is indicated.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated 389-ds-base packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:6153 and the referenced update article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258). No additional mitigation steps are indicated by Red Hat.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:6153
- Cve Count
- 1
- Additional Cves
- []
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a3da1f14853345fc183293b
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:47:29 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:45:07 UTC
Last updated: 06/27/2026, 10:51:10 UTC
Views: 4
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