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Amazon Linux 2 : libdb (ALAS-2023-1965)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172154

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of libdb installed on the remote host is prior to 5.3.21-24. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-1965 advisory.

 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update libdb' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1965.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-10140.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172154

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-1965.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-devel-static, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-java-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-tcl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-cxx, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-cxx-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-sql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-java, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-devel-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-sql-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-tcl-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libdb-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10140