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CVE-2017-10140

Published: 14 August 2017

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
see oss-sec for pam_ccreds example

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
db
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (5.1.29-9+deb8u1, 5.1.29-5+deb7u1)
xenial Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

db4.8
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

db5.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful
Released (5.3.28-13.1)
bionic
Released (5.3.28-13.1)
cosmic
Released (5.3.28-13.1)
disco
Released (5.3.28-13.1)
trusty
Released (5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (5.3.28-11ubuntu0.1)
zesty
Released (5.3.28-12ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
vendor: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdb/raw/8047fa8580659fcae740c25e91b490539b8453eb/f/db-5.3.28-cwd-db_config.patch

db6.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needed

xenial Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

Patches:

upstream: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/866783/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H