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Amazon Linux AMI : apr-util (ALAS-2017-929)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105053

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Synopsis

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

Description

Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util) fails to validate the integrity of SDBM database files used by apr_sdbm*() functions, resulting in a possible out of bound read access. A local user with write access to the database can make a program or process using these functions crash, and cause a denial of service.(CVE-2017-12618)

Solution

Run 'yum update apr-util' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-929.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105053

File Name: ala_ALAS-2017-929.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2017

Updated: 11/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-freetds, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-openssl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-odbc, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-ldap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-mysql, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:apr-util-nss

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12618

ALAS: 2017-929