Bug 1549636 – CVE-2018-7485 unixODBC: Insecure buffer copy in SQLWriteFileDSN function in odbcinst/SQLWriteFileDSN.c

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Bug 1549636 - (CVE-2018-7485) CVE-2018-7485 unixODBC: Insecure buffer copy in SQLWriteFileDSN function in odbcinst/SQLWriteFileDSN.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-7485 unixODBC: Insecure buffer copy in SQLWriteFileDSN function in o...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-7485

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1571530 1549637 1571531 1571532
Blocks:	1548307
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Reported:	2018-02-27 09:36 EST by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-09-27 07:06 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-02-27 09:36:51 EST

The SQLWriteFileDSN function in odbcinst/SQLWriteFileDSN.c in unixODBC 2.3.5 has strncpy arguments in the wrong order, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/lurcher/unixODBC/commit/45ef78e037f578b15fc58938a3a3251655e71d6f#diff-d52750c7ba4e594410438569d8e2963aL24

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-02-27 09:37:13 EST

Created unixODBC tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549637]

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