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389-ds-base: plain text password disclosure

Package(s):389-ds-base CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2678 CVE-2012-2746
Created:June 20, 2012 Updated:July 11, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

A flaw was found in the way 389 Directory Server handled password changes. If an LDAP user has changed their password, and the directory server has not been restarted since that change, an attacker able to bind to the directory server could obtain the plain text version of that user's password via the "unhashed#user#password" attribute. (CVE-2012-2678)

It was found that when the password for an LDAP user was changed, and audit logging was enabled (it is disabled by default), the new password was written to the audit log in plain text form. This update introduces a new configuration parameter, "nsslapd-auditlog-logging-hide-unhashed-pw", which when set to "on" (the default option), prevents 389 Directory Server from writing plain text passwords to the audit log. This option can be configured in "/etc/dirsrv/slapd-[ID]/dse.ldif". (CVE-2012-2746)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0997-01 2012-06-20
Oracle ELSA-2012-0997 2012-06-30
Scientific Linux SL-389--20120709 2012-07-09
CentOS CESA-2012:0997 2012-07-10

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