FreeTDS through 1.1.11 has a Buffer Overflow.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-680647 advisory.

    FreeTDS through 1.1.11 has a Buffer Overflow.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

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

This update for freetds to 1.1.36 fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2019-13508: Fixed a heap overflow that could have been caused by malicious servers sending UDT types over protocol version 5.0 (bsc#1141132).

Non-security issues fixed :

Enabled Kerberos support

Version update to 1.1.36 :

  - Default TDS protocol version is now 'auto'

  - Improved UTF-8 performances

  - TDS Pool Server is enabled

  - MARS support is enabled

  - NTLMv2 is enabled

  - See NEWS and ChangeLog for a complete list of changes

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for freetds to 1.1.36 fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2019-13508: Fixed a heap overflow that could have     been caused by malicious servers sending UDT types over     protocol version 5.0 (bsc#1141132).

Non-security issues fixed :

  - Enabled Kerberos support

  - Version update to 1.1.36 :

  - Default TDS protocol version is now 'auto'

  - Improved UTF-8 performances

  - TDS Pool Server is enabled

  - MARS support is enabled

  - NTLMv2 is enabled

  - See NEWS and ChangeLog for a complete list of changes

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4173-1 advisory.

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that FreeTDS incorrectly handled certain types after a protocol downgrade. A     remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeTDS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code.

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
267155	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: freetds (UTSA-2025-680647)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	critical
138263	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : freetds (SUSE-SU-2020:1417-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
137540	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : freetds (SUSE-SU-2020:1417-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
136995	openSUSE Security Update : freetds (openSUSE-2020-741)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
130429	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : FreeTDS vulnerability (USN-4173-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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