ALAS-2023-1726

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-10140  

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. (CVE-2017-10140)

ALAS-2023-1726


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1726
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-30 22:50 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-04-05 20:22 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2017-10140)


Affected Packages:

db4


Issue Correction:
Run yum update db4 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    db4-debuginfo-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-cxx-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-devel-static-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-utils-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-devel-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-tcl-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686
    db4-java-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.i686

src:
    db4-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    db4-devel-static-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-utils-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-devel-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-debuginfo-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-tcl-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-java-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64
    db4-cxx-4.7.25-22.13.amzn1.x86_64