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

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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
11/21/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/22/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-db4-8-util
  • ubuntu-upgrade-db5-1-util
  • ubuntu-upgrade-db5-3-util
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdb4-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdb5-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdb5-3

References

  • USN-3489-1
  • USN-3489-2
  • CVE-2017-10140

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