SUSE SLES15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2021:1878-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150400

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2021:1878-1 advisory.

- CVE-2021-3514: Fixed a sync_repl NULL pointer dereference in sync_create_state_control() (bsc#1185356)

389-ds was updated to version 1.4.3.23~git0.f53d0132b:

Bump version to 1.4.3.23:

* Issue 4725 - [RFE] DS - Update the password policy to support a Temporary Password Rules (#4727)
* Issue 4759 - Fix coverity issue (#4760)
* Issue 4656 - Fix cherry pick error around replication enabling
* Issue 4701 - RFE - Exclude attributes from retro changelog (#4723) (#4746)
* Issue 4742 - UI - should always use LDAPI path when calling CLI
* Issue 4667 - incorrect accounting of readers in vattr rwlock (#4732)
* Issue 4711 - SIGSEV with sync_repl (#4738)
* Issue 4649 - fix testcase importing ContentSyncPlugin
* Issue 2736 - Warnings from automatic shebang munging macro
* Issue 2736 - https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/2736
* Issue 4706 - negative wtime in access log for CMP operations

Bump version to 1.4.3.22:

* Issue 4671 - UI - Fix browser crashes
* lib389 - Add ContentSyncPlugin class
* Issue 4656 - lib389 - fix cherry pick error
* Issue 4229 - Fix Rust linking
* Issue 4658 - monitor - connection start date is incorrect
* Issue 2621 - lib389 - backport ds_supports_new_changelog()
* Issue 4656 - Make replication CLI backwards compatible with role name change
* Issue 4656 - Remove problematic language from UI/CLI/lib389
* Issue 4459 - lib389 - Default paths should use dse.ldif if the server is down
* Issue 4663 - CLI - unable to add objectclass/attribute without x-origin

Bump version to 1.4.3.21:

* Issue 4169 - UI - updates on the tuning page are not reflected in the UI
* Issue 4588 - BUG - unable to compile without xcrypt (#4589)
* Issue 4513 - Fix replication CI test failures (#4557)
* Issue 4646 - CLI/UI - revise DNA plugin management
* Issue 4644 - Large updates can reset the CLcache to the beginning of the changelog (#4647)
* Issue 4649 - crash in sync_repl when a MODRDN create a cenotaph (#4652)
* Issue 4615 - log message when psearch first exceeds max threads per conn

Bump version to 1.4.3.20:

* Issue 4324 - Some architectures the cache line size file does not exist
* Issue 4593 - RFE - Print help when nsSSLPersonalitySSL is not found (#4614)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected 389-ds, 389-ds-devel, lib389 and / or libsvrcore0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150400

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1878-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/9/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3514

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsvrcore0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lib389, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:389-ds, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3514

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1878-1

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