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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-4250-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133289

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4250-1 advisory.

 Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.

 MySQL has been updated to 8.0.19 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.29.

 In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

 Please see the following for more information:
 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-29.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-19.html https://www.oracle.com/security- alerts/cpujan2020.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4250-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133289

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4250-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/28/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2572

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2584

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient20, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-core-5.7, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-testsuite-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-testsuite, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqld-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server-core-5.7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-source-5.7

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-2570, CVE-2020-2572, CVE-2020-2573, CVE-2020-2574, CVE-2020-2577, CVE-2020-2579, CVE-2020-2584, CVE-2020-2588, CVE-2020-2589, CVE-2020-2627, CVE-2020-2660, CVE-2020-2679, CVE-2020-2686, CVE-2020-2694

USN: 4250-1