CVE-2017-15135

Name	CVE-2017-15135
Description	It was found that 389-ds-base since 1.3.6.1 up to and including 1.4.0.3 did not always handle internal hash comparison operations correctly during the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the authentication process under very rare and specific circumstances.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	888451

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
389-ds-base (PTS)	jessie	1.3.3.5-4	fixed
	jessie (security)	1.3.3.5-4+deb8u5	fixed
	stretch	1.3.5.17-2	fixed
	buster, sid	1.4.0.20-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Debian Bugs
389-ds-base	source	(unstable)	1.3.7.9-1	medium	888451
389-ds-base	source	jessie	(not affected)
389-ds-base	source	stretch	(not affected)

Notes

[stretch] - 389-ds-base <not-affected> (Affected code was never backported)
[jessie] - 389-ds-base <not-affected> (vulnerable code (patch for CVE-2016-5405) not applied)