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Postfix vulnerability (CVE-2017-10140)

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Postfix vulnerability (CVE-2017-10140)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/16/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/04/2018
Modified
02/21/2019

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)

  • postfix-upgrade-latest

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