openSUSE 16 Security Update : 389-ds (openSUSE-SU-2026:20415-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 304221

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2026:20415-1 advisory.

This update for 389-ds fixes the following issue:

Update to 389-ds 3.0.6~git249.6688af9b2:

- CVE-2025-14905: heap buffer overflow due to improper size calculation in `schema_attr_enum_callback` can lead to DoS and RCE (bsc#1258727).

Changelog:

* Issue 7277 - UI - Fix Japanese translation for Successfully updated group in Cockpit UI (#7278)
* Issue 7275 - UI - Improve password policy field validation in Cockpit UI (#7276)
* Issue 7279 - UI - Fix typo in export certificate dialog (#7280)
* Issue 7273 - In a chaining environment binding as remote user causes an invalid error in the logs
* Issue 7271 - plugins that create threads need to update active thread count
* Issue 5853 - Update concread to 0.5.10
* Issue 7053 - Remove memberof_del_dn_from_groups from MemberOf plugin (#7064)
* Issue 7223 - Remove integerOrderingMatch requirement for parentid (#7264)
* Issue 7066/7052 - allow password history to be set to zero and remove history
* Issue 7223 - Use lexicographical order for ancestorid (#7256)
* Issue 7213 - (2nd) MDB_BAD_VALSIZE error while handling VLV (#7258)
* Issue 7184 - (2nd) argparse.HelpFormatter _format_actions_usage() is deprecated (#7257)
* Issue - CLI - dsctl db2index needs some hardening with MBD
* Issue 7248 - CLI - attribute uniqueness - fix usage for exclude subtree option
* Issue 7231 - Sync repl tests fail in FIPS mode due to non FIPS compliant crypto (#7232)
* Issue 7121 - (2nd) LeakSanitizer: various leaks during replication (#7212)
* Issue 6947 - Fix health_system_indexes_test.py
* Issue 7076 - Fix revert_cache() never called in modrdn (#7220)
* Issue 7076, 6992, 6784, 6214 - Fix CI test failures (#7077)
* Issue 7096 - (2nd) During replication online total init the function idl_id_is_in_idlist is not scaling with large database (#7205)
* Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - @isaacs/brace-expansion (#7228)
* Issue 7223 - Add dsctl index-check command for offline index repair
* Issue 7223 - Detect and log index ordering mismatch during backend startup
* Issue 7223 - Add upgrade function to remove ancestorid index config entry
* Issue 7223 - Add upgrade function to remove nsIndexIDListScanLimit from parentid
* Issue 7223 - Revert index scan limits for system indexes
* Issue 6542 - RPM build errors on Fedora 42
* Issue 7224 - CI Test - Simplify test_reserve_descriptor_validation (#7225)
* Issue 7194 - Repl Log Analysis - Add CSN propagation details (#7195)
* Issue 7213 - MDB_BAD_VALSIZE error while handling VLV (#7214)
* Issue 7027 - (2nd) 389-ds-base OpenScanHub Leaks Detected (#7211)
* Issue 7184 - argparse.HelpFormatter _format_actions_usage() is deprecated
* Issue 7198 - Web console doesn't show sub-suffix when parent-suffix points to an entry (#7202)
* Issue 7189 - DSBLE0007 generates incorrect remediation commands for scan limits
* Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 in /src/cockpit/389-console (#7203)
* Issue 7172 - (2nd) Index ordering mismatch after upgrade (#7180)
* Issue 7172 - Index ordering mismatch after upgrade (#7173)
* Issue - Revise paged result search locking
* Issue 7096 - During replication online total init the function idl_id_is_in_idlist is not scaling with large database (#7145)
* Revert Issue 7160 - Add lib389 version sync check to configure (#7165)
* Issue 7160 - Add lib389 version sync check to configure (#7165)
* Issue 7049 - RetroCL plugin generates invalid LDIF
* Issue 7150 - Compressed access log rotations skipped, accesslog-list out of sync (#7151)
* Restore definition for slapi_entry_attr_get_valuearray
* Issue 1793 - RFE - Dynamic lists - UI and CLI updates
* Issue 7119 - Fix DNA shared config replication test (#7143)
* Issue 7081 - Repl Log Analysis - Implement data sampling with performance and timezone fixes (#7086)
* Issue 1793 - RFE - Implement dynamic lists
* Issue 6753 - Port ticket tests
* Issue 6753 - Port and fix ticket 47823 tests
* Issue 6753 - Add 'add_exclude_subtree' and 'remove_exclude_subtree' methods to Attribute uniqueness plugin
* Issue 6753 - Port ticket test 48026
* Issue 7128 - memory corruption in alias entry plugin (#7131)
* Issue 7091 - Duplicate local password policy entries listed (#7092)
* Issue 7124 - BDB cursor race condition with transaction isolation (#7125)
* Issue 7132 - Keep alive entry updated too soon after an offline import (#7133)
* Issue 7121 - LeakSanitizer: various leaks during replication (#7122)
* Issue 7115 - LeakSanitizer: leak in `slapd_bind_local_user()` (#7116)
* Issue 7109 - AddressSanitizer: SEGV ldap/servers/slapd/csnset.c:302 in csnset_dup (#7114)
* Issue 7056 - DSBLE0007 doesn't generate remediation steps for missing indexes
* Issue 7119 - Harden DNA plugin locking for shared server list operations (#7120)
* Issue 7084 - UI - schema - sorting attributes breaks expanded row
* Issue 7007 - Improve paged result search locking
* Issue 3555 - UI - Fix audit issue with npm - glob (#7107)
* Issue 6846 - Attribute uniqueness is not enforced with modrdn (#7026)
* Issue 6901 - Update changelog trimming logging - fix tests
* Issue 6901 - Update changelog trimming logging
* Bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /src/cockpit/389-console (#7097)
* Issue 7069 - Fix error reporting in HAProxy trusted IP parsing (#7094)
* Issue 7055 - Online initialization of consumers fails with error -23 (#7075)
* Issue 7042 - Enable global_backend_lock when memberofallbackend is enabled (#7043)
* Issue 7078 - audit json logging does not encode binary values
* Issue 7069 - Add Subnet/CIDR Support for HAProxy Trusted IPs (#7070)
* Issue 6660 - CLI, UI - Improve replication log analyzer usability (#7062)
* Issue 7065 - A search filter containing a non normalized DN assertion does not return matching entries (#7068)
* Issue 7071 - search filter (&(cn:dn:=groups)) no longer returns results
* Issue 7073 - Add NDN cache size configuration and enforcement tests (#7074)
* Issue 7041 - CLI/UI - memberOf - no way to add/remove specific group filters
* Issue 7061 - CLI/UI - Improve error messages for dsconf localpwp list
* Issue 7059 - UI - unable to upload pem file
* Issue 7032 - The new ipahealthcheck test ipahealthcheck.ds.backends.BackendsCheck raises CRITICAL issue (#7036)
* Issue 7047 - MemberOf plugin logs null attribute name on fixup task completion (#7048)
* Issue 7044 - RFE - index sudoHost by default (#7046)
* Issue 6979 - Improve the way to detect asynchronous operations in the access logs (#6980)
* Issue 7035 - RFE - memberOf - adding scoping for specific groups
* Issue - CLI/UI - Add option to delete all replication conflict entries
* Issue 7033 - lib389 - basic plugin status not in JSON
* Issue 7023 - UI - if first instance that is loaded is stopped it breaks parts of the UI
* Issue 7027 - 389-ds-base OpenScanHub Leaks Detected (#7028)
* Issue 6966 - On large DB, unlimited IDL scan limit reduce the SRCH performance (#6967)
* Issue 6660 - UI - Improve replication log analysis charts and usability (#6968)
* Issue 6982 - UI - MemberOf shared config does not validate DN properly (#6983)
* Issue 7021 - Units for changing MDB max size are not consistent across different tools (#7022)
* Issue 6954 - do not delete referrals on chain_on_update backend
* Issue 7018 - BUG - prevent stack depth being hit (#7019)
* Issue 6928 - The parentId attribute is indexed with improper matching rule
* Issue 6933 - When deferred memberof update is enabled after the server crashed it should not launch memberof fixup task by default (#6935)
* Issue 6904 - Fix config_test.py::test_lmdb_config
* Issue 7014 - memberOf - ignored deferred updates with LMDB
* Issue 7012 - improve dscrl dbverify result when backend does not exists (#7013)
* Issue 6929 - Compilation failure with rust-1.89 on Fedora ELN
* Issue 6990 - UI - Replace deprecated Select components with new TypeaheadSelect (#6996)
* Issue 6990 - UI - Fix typeahead Select fields losing values on Enter keypress (#6991)
* Issue 6887 - Enhance logconv.py to add support for JSON access logs (#6889)
* Issue 6985 - Some logconv CI tests fail with BDB (#6986)
* Issue 6891 - JSON logging - add wrapper function that checks for NULL
* Issue 6977 - UI - Show error message when trying to use unavailable ports (#6978)
* Issue 6956 - More UI fixes
* Issue 6947 - Revise time skew check in healthcheck tool and add option to exclude checks
* Issue 6805 - RFE - Multiple backend entry cache tuning
* Issue 6843 - Add CI tests for logconv.py (#6856)
* Issue - UI - update Radio handlers and LDAP entries last modified time
* Issue 6660 - UI - Fix minor typo (#6955)
* Issue 6910 - Fix latest coverity issues
* Issue 6919 - numSubordinates/tombstoneNumSubordinates are inconsisten... (#6920)
* Issue 6663 - Fix NULL subsystem crash in JSON error logging (#6883)
* Issue 6940 - dsconf monitor server fails with ldapi:// due to absent server ID (#6941)
* Issue 6936 - Make user/subtree policy creation idempotent (#6937)
* Issue 6865 - AddressSanitizer: leak in agmt_update_init_status
* Issue 6848 - AddressSanitizer: leak in do_search
* Issue 6850 - AddressSanitizer: memory leak in mdb_init
* Issue 6778 - Memory leak in roles_cache_create_object_from_entry part 2
* Issue 6778 - Memory leak in roles_cache_create_object_from_entry
* Issue 6181 - RFE - Allow system to manage uid/gid at startup
* Issues 6913, 6886, 6250 - Adjust xfail marks (#6914)
* Issue 6768 - ns-slapd crashes when a referral is added (#6780)
* Issue 6468 - CLI - Fix default error log level
* Issue 6339 - Address Coverity scan issues in memberof and bdb_layer (#6353)
* Issue 6897 - Fix disk monitoring test failures and improve test maintainability (#6898)
* Issue 6884 - Mask password hashes in audit logs (#6885)
* Issue 6594 - Add test for numSubordinates replication consistency with tombstones (#6862)
* Issue 6250 - Add test for entryUSN overflow on failed add operations (#6821)
* Issue 6895 - Crash if repl keep alive entry can not be created
* Issue 6893 - Log user that is updated during password modify extended operation
* Issue 6772 - dsconf - Replicas with the consumer role allow for viewing and modification of their changelog. (#6773)
* Issue 6888 - Missing access JSON logging for TLS/Client auth
* Issue 6680 - instance read-only mode is broken (#6681)
* Issue 6878 - Prevent repeated disconnect logs during shutdown (#6879)
* Issue 6872 - compressed log rotation creates files with world readable permission
* Issue 6859 - str2filter is not fully applying matching rules
* Issue 6868 - UI - schema attribute table expansion break after moving to a new page
* Issue 6854 - Refactor for improved data management (#6855)
* Issue 6756 - CLI, UI - Properly handle disabled NDN cache (#6757)
* Issue 6857 - uiduniq: allow specifying match rules in the filter
* Issue 6838 - lib389/replica.py is using nonexistent datetime.UTC in Python 3.9
* Issue 6822 - Backend creation cleanup and Database UI tab error handling (#6823)
* Issue 6782 - Improve paged result locking
* Issue 6825 - RootDN Access Control Plugin with wildcards for IP addre... (#6826)
* Issue 6736 - Exception thrown by dsconf instance repl get_ruv (#6742)
* Issue 6819 - Incorrect pwdpolicysubentry returned for an entry with user password policy
* Issue 6553 - Update concread to 0.5.6 (#6824)
* Issue 1081 - Add a CI test (#6063)
* Issue 6761 - Password modify extended operation should skip password policy checks when executed by root DN
* Issue 6791 - crash in liblmdb during instance shutdown (#6793)
* Issue 6641 - modrdn fails when a user is member of multiple groups (#6643)
* Issue 6776 - Enabling audit log makes slapd coredump
* Issue 6534 - CI fails with Fedora 41 and DNF5
* Issue 6787 - Improve error message when bulk import connection is closed
* Issue 6727 - RFE - database compaction interval should be persistent
* Issue 6438 - Add basic dsidm organizational unit tests
* Issue 6439 - Fix dsidm service get_dn option
* Issue 5120 - ns-slapd doesn't start in referral mode (#6763)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258727

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14905

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 304221

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20415-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2026

Updated: 3/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-14905

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsvrcore0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:389-ds, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:389-ds-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:389-ds-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lib389

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: 3/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-14905