USN-4004-1: Berkeley DB vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• db5.3 - Berkeley DB Utilities

Details

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

• db5.3-sql-util - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5ubuntu0.1
• db5.3-util - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3 - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3-sql - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3-sql-dev - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.10

• db5.3-sql-util - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.1ubuntu0.1
• db5.3-util - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.1ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3 - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.1ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3-sql - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.1ubuntu0.1
• libdb5.3-sql-dev - 5.3.28+dfsg1-0.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• db5.3-sql-util - 5.3.28-13.1ubuntu1.1
• db5.3-util - 5.3.28-13.1ubuntu1.1
• libdb5.3 - 5.3.28-13.1ubuntu1.1
• libdb5.3-sql - 5.3.28-13.1ubuntu1.1
• libdb5.3-sql-dev - 5.3.28-13.1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• db5.3-sql-util - 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.2
• db5.3-util - 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.2
• libdb5.3 - 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.2
• libdb5.3-sql - 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.2
• libdb5.3-sql-dev - 5.3.28-11ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-8457

Related notices

• USN-4004-2: libdb5.3-sql-dev, db5.3, libdb5.3-dev, libdb5.3-java-dev, libdb5.3-tcl, db5.3-doc, libdb5.3-java-gcj, libdb5.3-java-jni, db5.3-util, libdb5.3-stl, libdb5.3, libdb5.3-sql, libdb5.3-stl-dev, db5.3-sql-util, libdb5.3++, libdb5.3++-dev, libdb5.3-java
• USN-4019-1: libsqlite3-0, sqlite3, sqlite3-doc, libsqlite3-dev, lemon, libsqlite3-tcl
• USN-4019-2: libsqlite3-0, sqlite3, sqlite3-doc, libsqlite3-dev, lemon, libsqlite3-tcl