vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-10140): Berkeley DB vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 21, 2017
Added
Nov 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-db4-8-utilubuntu-upgrade-db5-1-utilubuntu-upgrade-db5-3-utilubuntu-upgrade-libdb4-8ubuntu-upgrade-libdb5-1ubuntu-upgrade-libdb5-3
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