ALAS2-2019-1354

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-7409   CVE-2018-7485  

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the unicode_to_ansi_copy() function of unixODBC. This overflow is not directly controllable by an attacker making the maximum potential impact a crash or denial of service.(CVE-2018-7409) An argument order confusion flaw was found in the SQLWriteFileDSN API of unixODBC. This could only be exploited via a malicious ODBC database connector package with the maximum impact being a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7485)

ALAS2-2019-1354


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1354
Advisory Release Date: 2019-11-04 22:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-11-07 00:31 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the unicode_to_ansi_copy() function of unixODBC. This overflow is not directly controllable by an attacker making the maximum potential impact a crash or denial of service.(CVE-2018-7409)

An argument order confusion flaw was found in the SQLWriteFileDSN API of unixODBC. This could only be exploited via a malicious ODBC database connector package with the maximum impact being a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7485)


Affected Packages:

unixODBC


Issue Correction:
Run yum update unixODBC to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    unixODBC-2.3.1-14.amzn2.aarch64
    unixODBC-devel-2.3.1-14.amzn2.aarch64
    unixODBC-debuginfo-2.3.1-14.amzn2.aarch64

i686:
    unixODBC-2.3.1-14.amzn2.i686
    unixODBC-devel-2.3.1-14.amzn2.i686
    unixODBC-debuginfo-2.3.1-14.amzn2.i686

src:
    unixODBC-2.3.1-14.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    unixODBC-2.3.1-14.amzn2.x86_64
    unixODBC-devel-2.3.1-14.amzn2.x86_64
    unixODBC-debuginfo-2.3.1-14.amzn2.x86_64