The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4997 advisory.

    Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAPv3-compliant directory server. The suite of packages includes the     Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, as well as command-line utilities and Web UI packages     for server administration.

    Security Fixes:

    * 389-ds-base: Unauthenticated user can trigger a DoS by sending a specific extended search request     (CVE-2024-6237) (2294858)

    * 389-ds-base: Malformed userPassword hash may cause Denial of Service (CVE-2024-5953) (DIRSRV-137)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Users of Red Hat Directory Server 12 are advised to install these updated packages.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 9 : redhat-ds:12 (RHSA-2024:4997)

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