CVE-2026-16560
CVE-2026-16560: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare source-reported impact, fixes and remediation.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium5.3
Medium [CVE-2026-16560] heap-buffer-overflow in rdn_av_swap on quoted multivalued RDN
CVE-2026-16560Source published Source updated
A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in Directory Server (389-ds-base). When a DN contains a legacy-quoted value, the server won't close the heap allocation allowing another call to refer to the same memory pointer causing a denial of service or an arbitrary memory write operation. Red-hat rates this vulnerability as Moderate impact. The function can allow an unauthenticated attacker to send malformed DN requests and trigger the bug. Denial of service is more reliably observed when heap debugging is enabled (for example AddressSanitizer or MALLOC_CHECK_=3), or depending on heap layout and subsequent memory allocator activity. There is no configuration switch to disable DN normalization for client-supplied DNs. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Directory Server 11
- Red Hat Directory Server 12
- Red Hat Directory Server 13
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
5 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- Denial of service is more reliably observed when heap debugging is enabled (for example AddressSanitizer or MALLOC_CHECK_=3), or depending on heap layout and subsequent memory allocator activity. For this reason Red Hat rates availability impact as Low (A:L) rather than High. There is no configuration switch to disable DN normalization for client-supplied DNs. The vulnerable code path is present in all currently supported 389-ds-base versions that ship the quoted-RDN parsing logic in dn.c.
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