CVE-2026-11774: high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Directory Server 11.5 E4S for RHEL 8
389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: integer overflow in sasl packet length bypasses size limit leading to heap buffer overflow
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.6epss 0.7%
An integer overflow flaw was found in the SASL I/O layer of 389 Directory Server (389-ds-base). In sasl_io_start_packet(), adding sizeof(uint32_t) to a crafted SASL packet length prefix of 0xFFFFFFFC causes unsigned wraparound to zero, bypassing the nsslapd-maxsasliosize limit and leading to a heap buffer overflow of up to approximately 2 megabytes of attacker-controlled data. After a successful SASL bind with integrity protection (SSF > 0), a remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE). In FreeIPA and Red Hat Identity Management deployments, any domain user with a valid Kerberos ticket, enrolled host, or service account can trigger this vulnerability over the network. This flaw is independent of CVE-2025-14905, which patched schema.c only and did not modify sasl_io.c.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 11.5 E4S for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 11.7 E4S for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 11.9 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 12Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 12.2 E4S for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 E4S for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 13Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 13.2Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-OnRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-OnRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update SupportRelated CVEs — Red Hat Directory Server 11.5 E4S for RHEL 8
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-14905HIGH389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: remote code execution and denial of service via heap buffer overflowEPSS 1.3%CVE-2024-3657HIGH389-ds-base: potential denial of service via specially crafted kerberos as-req requestEPSS 1.3%CVE-2026-18453HIGH389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pre-authentication null pointer dereference via paged results and use_one_backend control in op_shared_searchEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-18355HIGH389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: heap buffer overflow via sasl wrapped-record length lower-bound underflow in sasl_io_start_packet()EPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-15722HIGH389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pre-authentication stack buffer overflow in get_ruvelement_from_berval() via unbounded replica id parsingEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-9064HIGH389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: unbounded ldap controls count in get_ldapmessage_controls_ext() causes cpu and heap amplification (remote dos)EPSS 0.8%
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36195https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36196https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36197https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36198https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36200https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36201https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36202https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36204https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36205https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36206https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36208https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36209