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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerability (USN-4250-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133548

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4250-2 advisory.

 It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service for MariaDB clients.

 MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.22 in Ubuntu 19.10 and 10.1.44 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

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

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-4250-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133548

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4250-2.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2020

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2574

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbd18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-10.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-core-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server-10.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-tokudb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-connect, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-mroonga, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-spider, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmariadbclient-dev-compat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-gssapi-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-plugin-oqgraph, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mariadb-client-core-10.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-2574

USN: 4250-2