Advisories » MGASA-2017-0380

Updated db48 and db53 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Oct 2017
Modification date: 19 Oct 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-10140

Description

It was found that Berkeley DB reads the DB_CONFIG configuration file from the
current working directory by default. This happens when calling db_create()
with dbenv=NULL; or using the dbm_open() function (CVE-2017-10140).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21203
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/12/1
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4JKFB2V7HP5V4KCYKSXMTWUDWUWQOV3S/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10140

SRPMS

5/core

• db48-4.8.30-18.1.mga5
• db53-5.3.28-4.1.mga5

6/core

• db48-4.8.30-21.1.mga6
• db53-5.3.28-10.1.mga6