Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-7409

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CVE-2018-7409

unixODBC: Buffer overflow in unicode_to_ansi_copy() can lead to crash or other unspecified impact

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (low).

Description

In unixODBC before 2.3.5, there is a buffer overflow in the unicode_to_ansi_copy() function in DriverManager/__info.c.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 2.0unixODBC2.3.7-1.ph2
amazon linux 2unixODBC, unixODBC-debuginfo, unixODBC-devel2.3.1-14.amzn2
debian 11unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 12unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 13unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 14unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 7unixodbcno fix listed
debian 8unixodbcno fix listed
debian 9unixodbcno fix listed
echounixodbc2.3.6-0.1
Oracle Linux 7unixODBC, unixODBC-devel2.3.1-14.0.1.el7
Red HatunixODBC, unixODBC-devel, unixODBC-kdeno fix listed
Show all 33 entries from 28 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 2.0unixODBC2.3.7-1.ph2
amazon linux 2unixODBC2.3.1-14.amzn2
amazon linux 2unixODBC-debuginfo2.3.1-14.amzn2
amazon linux 2unixODBC-devel2.3.1-14.amzn2
debian 11unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 12unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 13unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 14unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
debian 7unixodbcno fix listed
debian 8unixodbcno fix listed
debian 9unixodbcno fix listed
echounixodbc2.3.6-0.1
Oracle Linux 7unixODBC2.3.1-14.0.1.el7
Oracle Linux 7unixODBC-devel2.3.1-14.0.1.el7
Red HatunixODBCno fix listed
Red HatunixODBC-develno fix listed
Red HatunixODBC-kdeno fix listed
root.io debian 12rootio-unixodbc2.3.6-0.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMunixodbc2.2.14p2-5ubuntu5+esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMunixodbc2.3.1-4.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 18.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 18.04-ESMunixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 18.10unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 19.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 19.10unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.04-ESMunixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 20.10unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 21.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 21.10unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 22.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 22.10unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3
ubuntu 23.04unixodbc2.3.4-1.1ubuntu3

References

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