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
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
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