https://bugs.gentoo.org/638434 Description: CVE-2017-10140: Reads DB_CONFIG from the current working directory Do not access DB_CONFIG when db_home is not set. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdb/raw/8047fa8580659fcae740c25e91b490539b8453eb/f/db-5.3.28-cwd-db_config.patch From: Petr Kubat --- a/env/env_open.c 2017-06-26 10:32:11.011419981 +0200 +++ b/env/env_open.c 2017-06-26 10:32:46.893721233 +0200 @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ env->db_mode = mode == 0 ? DB_MODE_660 : mode; /* Read the DB_CONFIG file. */ - if ((ret = __env_read_db_config(env)) != 0) + if (env->db_home != NULL && (ret = __env_read_db_config(env)) != 0) return (ret); /*