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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-12618

medium Nessus Plugin ID 220403

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APR-util) 1.6.0 and prior fail 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)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12618

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 220403

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_12618.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apr-util-nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:apr-util-sqlite

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12618