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SUSE: CVE-2017-12618: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12618: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/14/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util) 1.6.0 and prior fail to validate the integrity of SDBM database files used by apr_sdbm*() functions, resulting in a possible out of bound read access. A local user with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-apr-util-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-dbd-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-dbd-pgsql
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-dbd-sqlite3
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libapr-util1-devel-32bit

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:3278-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0307-1
  • 101558
  • 1042004
  • CVE-2017-12618

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