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CVE-2018-7409

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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

Affected products

• unixodbc: before 2.3.5 — fixed in 2.3.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: unixodbc 2.3.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.unixodbc.org/unixODBC-2.3.5.tar.gz
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2336
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/unixodbc/files/unixODBC/2.3.5/ChangeLog/download
• http://www.unixodbc.org/unixODBC-2.3.5.tar.gz
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2336
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/unixodbc/files/unixODBC/2.3.5/ChangeLog/download

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