CVE-2026-86344

NameCVE-2026-86344
DescriptionA flaw was found in 389-ds-base. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a complete LDAP operation followed by the first bytes of an incomplete LDAPMessage on the same connection, causing the server to hand that connection to a second worker thread before the first worker's result is flushed. The second worker blocks until nsslapd-ioblocktimeout while holding the connection mutex, preventing delivery of the completed operation's result. Repeating this across a small number of connections proportional to the configured worker-thread pool size exhausts the entire pool under default configuration, denying service to all clients (anonymous and authenticated, plaintext and TLS) for as long as the attacker maintains the connections.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
389-ds-base (PTS)bookworm2.3.1+dfsg1-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie3.1.2+dfsg1-1+deb13u1vulnerable
sid3.3.1-3vulnerable

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
389-ds-basesource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529329
check, not details provided on 2026-10-02 in Red Hat bugzilla

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