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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-10140: Security patch for libdb (ALAS-2023-1965)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-10140: Security patch for libdb (ALAS-2023-1965)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/16/2018
Created
03/08/2023
Added
03/07/2023
Modified
03/07/2023

Description

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DB_CONFIG in the current directory.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-cxx
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-cxx-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-devel-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-devel-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-java
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-java-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-sql
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-sql-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-tcl
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-tcl-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libdb-utils

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