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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-10140: Security patch for db4 (ALAS-2023-1726)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-10140: Security patch for db4 (ALAS-2023-1726)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/21/2017
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/06/2023
Modified
04/06/2023

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-upgrade-db4

References

  • ALAS-2023-1726
  • CVE-2017-10140
  • USN-3489-1
  • USN-3489-2

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