RHSA-2020:4999 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: unixODBC security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 10, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for unixODBC is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The unixODBC packages contain a framework that supports accessing databases through the ODBC protocol.
Security Fix(es):
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unixODBC: Buffer overflow in unicode_to_ansi_copy() can lead to crash or other unspecified impact (CVE-2018-7409)
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unixODBC: Insecure buffer copy in SQLWriteFileDSN function in odbcinst/SQLWriteFileDSN.c (CVE-2018-7485)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.