Medium: unixODBC

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  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-7409, CVE-2018-7485

Mitre: CVE-2018-7409, CVE-2018-7485